Fedora 18 cannot mount any USB device

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 12:03 +0200, Marek Miller wrote:
> 
> 
> Od: "Rami Rosen" <roszenrami at gmail.com>
> Do: "Marek Miller" <fenixx3000 at interia.eu>; 
> Wysłane: 10:17 Sobota 2013-04-20
> Temat: Re: Fedora 18 cannot mount any USB device
> 
> > Hi,
> > It seems as though there is some problem with the USB device partition
> > table; it is a bit strange because the upgrade should not cause such a
> > problem. (and it occurs on more than one device).
> > 
> > I would suggest that you will verify this on another Linux machine (if
> > it is possible for you). I mean plug the USB disk and see if you get
> > errors and
> > run "fdisk -l". In case results are different, this seems strange.
> > 
> 
> It is not that case,
> 
> The same phisical USB, the same phisical machine,. virtual Ubuntu launched under virtualbox shows:
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 15.6 GB, 15610576896 bytes
> 119 heads, 55 sectors/track, 4658 cylinders, total 30489408 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *        8064    30489407    15240672    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> root at kubus:~# 
> 
> The efect in F18 is repeatable for any usb device inserted to any usb port,so it is definitely not a problem with the partitiion itself
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VMWare is more than capable of claiming exclusive use of USB devices so
that that the 'host' machine would never see a plugged in device.

Knowing that you have VMWare installed and running on the same machine
would be a very likely explanation for this behavior.

Craig


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