winxp and puppy wont recognize usb flashdisk but ubuntu can

[mrkcee]

My Transcend USB (1GB) flash disk is not recognized by winxp and puppy but ubuntu can. Here's what I did (as far as I can remember):

I was trying SLAX, what I did was I used MySLAX Creator to make my usb bootable. I turned the computer off. After a while, I booted again to windows and when I inserted my usb disk, it is not recognized anymore by winxp. The next day I went to our school's computer lab and used Ubuntu to try whether it will detect my usb. And to my surprise, it did recognize by usb drive. So, thinking that reformatting it to fat/vfat/fat32 will make winxp recognize it, i executed the command: mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sda1. After it formatted my usb drive, I tried it on one of the windows machines found in the lab. It was recognized by windows. When I got home, I tried it but it wasnt recognized. Thinking that a linux system might recognized it, I installed puppy but it also didnt recognize it. Any ideas? How come Ubuntu was able to recognize it?

PS. puppy's great

[disciple]

Does Gparted see it in Puppy?

[davids45]

G'day,

I think the problem could lie in your computer's USB system.
Did you try the flash drive in more than one USB socket (I assume there's more than one)?

Check the USB info. program on Puppy's right-click menus (Utility, I think) to see if anything registers when the drive's plugged in.

And try re-booting the computer, with the flash drive in and out of these, particularly with Windows?

Good luck,

David S.

[mrkcee]

I check if soemthings registers in Puppy later when I get home.

I did something again to my flash disk. When I got to school this morning, my usb was able to be recognized by ubuntu. Then, I used cfdisk to change the filesystem type to 0B. After that, I used fdisk to delete the partition and used cfdisk to create a new one. I tested the usb to the windows machine and it didnt work. I used ubuntu again and it didnt recognize my usb anymore. I think I destroyed it... Any thoughts?

[disciple]

Can you confirm that Puppy's partitioning software couldn't see it, not that just MUT and Pmount couldn't?

[maddox]

could it be plugged in upside down, saw that in the forum somewhere
had the prob on an old laptop, it had a worn usb connector

[JohnRoberts]

Can you check the type of the stick? I've used 5 different Transcend sticks and they all work OK (2.14, 2.15CE, 2.17.1, 2.14R, 2.03CE) without any tweaking (MBR, formatting or anything else...). Two of them are actually combination USB/WiFi sticks...

[mrkcee]

it wasnt recognized by puppy.. i think it's really busted.. ugh.

when i put in the usb drive and typed dmesg, i got this:

Jan 24 01:41:28 (none) kern.info kernel: usb 1-2.3: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 15
Jan 24 01:41:28 (none) kern.err kernel: usb 1-2.3: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Jan 24 01:41:28 (none) kern.err kernel: usb 1-2.3: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Jan 24 01:41:28 (none) kern.info kernel: usb 1-2.3: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 16
Jan 24 01:41:29 (none) kern.err kernel: usb 1-2.3: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Jan 24 01:41:29 (none) kern.err kernel: usb 1-2.3: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Jan 24 01:41:29 (none) kern.info kernel: usb 1-2.3: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 17
Jan 24 01:41:29 (none) kern.err kernel: usb 1-2.3: device not accepting address 17, error -71
Jan 24 01:41:29 (none) kern.info kernel: usb 1-2.3: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 18
Jan 24 01:41:30 (none) kern.err kernel: usb 1-2.3: device not accepting address 18, error -71

I tried the "modprobe -r uhci_hcd" method but that didnt work.

[Jesse]

Oh dear. Check the physical connector for dirt, pencil shavings, food, and pocket lint. Check the computer usb port as well as the drives usb port, dirty contacts means no-comms.