[kwlug disc.] USB key sickness

[Paul Nijjar]

 	I have a USB flash drive that has been acting up. When I put it 
into my Linux box at home or the Windows machines at school, the flash 
drive... flashes. That is, the little LED light blinks at me. Blink, 
blink, blink. Meanwhile I can't mount the drive.

 	UPDATE: Actually, the LED does not blink at me anymore. I looked 
around for information and thought that maybe repartitioning and 
reformating the drive would fix the problem. No go -- I can't even bring 
up the drive in cfdisk. For non-existent partitions I get messages that 
the drive cannot be found. For the USB drive partition I get a "can't 
determine drive size" message (I don't have the exact wording with me; 
sorry).

 	I know the USB device is recognized by linux, and if I go to 
/proc I can see the device information as sg1. (Which itself is odd.)

 	Any ideas? Is the flash drive dead now?

- Paul




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