usb memory stick

[Sean Sieger]

Sean Sieger <sean.sieger at gmail.com> writes:

   Alex Marten <alex.marten at gmail.com> writes:

      The first step would to run "dmesg" in a terminal after you just plug
      it in and check to see if it is even being recognized by the system. 
      Maybe you could post that info.

      On 9/16/05, Sean Sieger <sean.sieger at gmail.com> wrote:
      > When I plug my memory stick into my machine, it does
      > not show up on my desktop. I don't know enough about
      > drives to know where to start. I've tried apropos
      > without luck. Can I reformat it? Or, make it new again? :)

sda: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
   Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
    unable to read partition table

Is this my problem?
-- 
Sean Sieger