[clug-talk] Flash drive problem

[John Jardine]

You should be able to run "modprobe ehci_hcd" (as root) to put it back.
That should at least allow you to mount again.

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 21:46 -0400, Richard Carter wrote:
> Hi Mark,  
> 
> Thanks for the tip.   I did what you suggest but now the flash drive
> won't mount!  
> I'm glad there was nothing on that I needed to keep.
> 
> Robin
> 
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Mark Carlson <carlsonmark at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         On 5/6/09, Richard Carter <carter.r.a.l at gmail.com> wrote:
>         > Hi Folks,
>         >
>         > I have 2 USB flash drives with details below:
>         >
>         > redcube:~# df -Th
>         > Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>         > /dev/hda1     ext3    142G   46G   89G  34% /
>         > tmpfs        tmpfs    976M     0  976M   0% /lib/init/rw
>         >  udev         tmpfs     10M  100K   10M   1% /dev
>         > tmpfs        tmpfs    976M     0  976M   0% /dev/shm
>         > /dev/hdc   iso9660    3.1G  3.1G     0 100% /media/cdrom0
>         > /dev/sda1     vfat    7.7G  8.0K  7.7G   1% /media/PATRIOT
>         >  /dev/sdb1     vfat     16G  461M   16G   3% /media/USB DISK
>         >
>         > Under kubuntu 9.04 both PATRIOT  and  USB DISK are mounted
>         as read/write so
>         > I am able to copy files to and from either one.  But under
>         debian 5.0 only
>         > PATRIOT is mounted as read/write while USB DISK is mounted
>         as write only so
>         > I am unable to copy file to USB DISK.
>         >
>         > I suspect this has something to do with /etc/fstab on the
>         system running
>         > debian but I don't know what I should do so that both flash
>         drives always
>         > mount as read/write on that system.
>         >
>         > I realize that this is somewhat related to an earlier
>         thread.  I'm sorry but
>         > I'm a slow learner.
>         >
>         > Robin
>         
>         
>         Give this a try:
>         - Remove the flash drives
>         - Run this as root:
>         modprobe -r ehci_hcd
>         - Plug the flash drives back in
>         
>         If it works now, then you may have be experiencing a bug
>         related to
>         the USB 2.0 driver (and your hardware) in Debian.
>         
>         -Mark C.
>         
>         
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