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The system seems to know that my pendrive in insert, but when I try to mount it, I cannot do it 'cause it not appears in /dev/.

I post the result of command

dmesg | tail -n 6 

[  647.763175] usb 2-1.2: new high speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[  647.856809] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=18a5, idProduct=0302
[  647.856820] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  647.856827] usb 2-1.2: Product: STORE N GO                    
[  647.856832] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: Verbatim                      
[  647.856837] usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: 000000000000447C

as you can see, no device is bound with my pendrive and I don't know how to mount it. I really don't know what I have to do!

Any ideas???

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  • try this line in terminal sudo ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/*usb* and see if anything shows up
    – Rob
    Dec 3, 2011 at 15:14
  • Cannot access to /dev/.... : File or directory does not exist.
    – Kyrol
    Dec 3, 2011 at 15:19
  • It's strange because few days ago I mounted the pendrive on /dev/sdb1
    – Kyrol
    Dec 3, 2011 at 15:20
  • If you really don't have a /dev directory something is really hosed and you need to reinstall.
    – LawrenceC
    Dec 3, 2011 at 18:37
  • I resolved!!! The module of usb_storage was not loaded! > sudo modprobe usb_storage but I don't understand why the module is not loaded automatically on start-up! why??
    – Kyrol
    Dec 3, 2011 at 18:40

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A normal output should also include something like:

[26789.560701] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[26789.560878] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[26789.561162] usb-storage: device found at 3
[26789.561164] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[26789.561171] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[26789.561174] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[26794.561205] usb-storage: device scan complete
[26794.561792] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Ut165    USB2FlashStorage 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[26794.562205] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[26794.562912] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 3948544 512-byte logical blocks: (2.02 GB/1.88 GiB)
[26794.563404] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[26794.563407] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[26794.563409] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[26794.566665] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[26794.566669]  sdc: sdc1
[26794.690926] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[26794.690930] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[26795.736708] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[26795.759838] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A

This happens if the usb_storage is not loaded, you can check it out with:

lsmod | grep -i usb_storage

if it shows no output then it means that the module is not loaded; load it with:

sudo modprobe usb_storage

If everything then works you can make things persistent with:

sudo sh -c 'echo usb_storage >> /etc/modules'

But I don't know why such things happen.

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  • Thanks man! It seems that you have big experience with this kind of issues... :P
    – Kyrol
    Dec 3, 2011 at 19:44

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