doesn't detect usb disk

[chewy]

Binary package hint: usb-creator

I have inserted my SD card into a USB card reader, and plugged this into my usb port. The device is being detected, since it was automatically mounted and I can see the files on the SD card. Also I can read/write files without any problems, so this does not appear to be a device/driver issue. Still, usb-creator does not detect this USB disc at all. I have attached the complete output of hal-devices.

Thanks
Jack

[chewy (ubuntu-mob)]

Additional info: output from stdout when I'm inserting the device. But still no luck...

(this is a 4GB SD card, with the write lock NOT enabled...)

jackv@host37:~$ sudo usb-creator

-- Starting up at 13:51:45 --
[13:51:53] possibly adding: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_58f_6332_058F63326337
[13:51:53] possibly adding: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_58f_6332_058F63326337_if0
[13:51:53] possibly adding: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_58f_6332_058F63326337_if0_scsi_host
[13:51:58] possibly adding: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_58f_6332_058F63326337_if0_scsi_host_0
[13:51:58] possibly adding: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_58f_6332_058F63326337_if0_scsi_host_0_scsi_device_lun0
[13:51:59] possibly adding: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_58f_6332_058F63326337_if0_scsi_host_0_scsi_device_lun0_scsi_generic
[13:51:59] possibly adding: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_58f_6332_058F63326337_if0_scsi_host_0_scsi_device_lun1
[13:51:59] possibly adding: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_58f_6332_058F63326337_if0_scsi_host_0_scsi_device_lun1_scsi_generic
[13:51:59] possibly adding: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Generic_USB_MS_Reader_058F63326337_0_1
[13:51:59] possibly adding: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Generic_USB_SD_Reader_058F63326337_0_0
[13:51:59] possibly adding: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part1_size_4116117504

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

Which version of Ubuntu are you using?

[chewy (ubuntu-mob)]

Latest greatest 8.10. Gnome-edition.

[junkzilla (junkzilla-bugmenot)]

I have the same problem. Adding my hal-device output as well.

[chewy (ubuntu-mob)]

This seems to have something to do with the fact that usb-creator assumes certain things about the partitions and file systems on the device. Why is this? Is there some "optimal" configuration to use?

[chewy (ubuntu-mob)]

I created a FAT16 partition on the memory stick using fdisk, and then created a FAT fs on that partition with mkfs.vfat. You could probably just make a FAT32 partition as well with the same results, but that resolves the issue.

It would be nice if usb-creator could assist with this, at least by telling people that it requires some prior setup, if not the ability to auto-partition (which I can understand would be a bit dangerous).

[Michael R. Head (burner)]

My friend has a USB drive enclosure that he put an older IDE drive into and has been trying to use usb-creator to create a bootable Ubuntu drive. usb-creator does not detect this as a USB drive and so cannot do this.

We successfully using gparted to repartition the drive as one big VFAT (fat32) partition, but that still didn't help with respect to detection with usb-creator.

Any other ideas?

[junkzilla (junkzilla-bugmenot)]

FYI, the solution which worked for chewy did not solve the problem for me, i.e. creating FAT16 did not solve it.

[Pippo (l-riso)]

the problem is that usb-creator only works with USB flash **optical** usb sticky, not with USB **hard** drives.. Yes do not ask me why. but it seems they choose to do so for not confusing the users, but in my opinion this limit is even more confusing.. I have submitted a bug for this

[Evan (ev)]

Pippo, I'm not sure what you mean by "USB flash **optical** usb sticky", but usb-creator is meant to work with most removable media.

Can anyone who is experiencing this bug please try with usb-creator from Karmic? Please feel free to wait until 9.10 is released.

Thanks!

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments [comment #11]. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.
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