memory stick not recognized

[Geoffrey Leach]

I have a Sony 128MB memory stick. When inserted, Fedora 19 does not recognize it -- lsblk does not show it, dmesg reports nothing. It's writable by Windows 7, which reports the device as "JMCR MS SCSI Disk Device"

Any thoughts on how to access the stick under Fedora?

Thanks.

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On 11/03/2013 10:20 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> I have a Sony 128MB memory stick. When inserted, Fedora 19 does not recognize it -- lsblk does not show it, dmesg reports nothing. It's writable by Windows 7, which reports the device as "JMCR MS SCSI Disk Device"
>
> Any thoughts on how to access the stick under Fedora?
>
> Thanks.

What shows up in /var/log/messages when you plug it in?

Mikkel

[Geoffrey Leach]

There is no output to /var/log/messages when I plug it in.

On 11/04/2013 07:50:57 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> On 11/03/2013 10:20 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > I have a Sony 128MB memory stick. When inserted, Fedora 19 does not
>
> recognize it -- lsblk does not show it, dmesg reports nothing. It's
> writable by Windows 7, which reports the device as "JMCR MS SCSI Disk
> Device"
> > Any thoughts on how to access the stick under Fedora?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> What shows up in /var/log/messages when you plug it in?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On 11/04/2013 11:28 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> There is no output to /var/log/messages when I plug it in.
>
> On 11/04/2013 07:50:57 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > On 11/03/2013 10:20 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > > I have a Sony 128MB memory stick. When inserted, Fedora 19 does not
> >
> > recognize it -- lsblk does not show it, dmesg reports nothing. It's
> > writable by Windows 7, which reports the device as "JMCR MS SCSI Disk
> > Device"
> > > Any thoughts on how to access the stick under Fedora?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > What shows up in /var/log/messages when you plug it in?

If you can, try it in another USB port. You can also run lsusb and
see if it shows the memory stick, or an unidentified USB device. I
don't expect lsusb to produce if /var/log/messages does not show
anything. Normall there will be a message when you plug in a USB
device, even if the system does not reconize what the device is.
Something like:

Nov  6 14:11:59 x86 kernel: [31349.337850] usb 2-4: new high-speed
USB device number 3 using ehci-pci

Mikkel

[Carlos "casep" Sepulveda]

On 4 November 2013 01:20, Geoffrey Leach  wrote:
> Any thoughts on how to access the stick under Fedora?

AFAIU, you need to recompile your kernel in order to get it

http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/MEMSTICK.html

Using PTP you should be able to read it while pluged-in onto the camera.

Kind regards

[Geoffrey Leach]

Sigh! What a bummer. But thanks for the info.

On 11/04/2013 08:18:31 AM, Carlos "casep" Sepulveda wrote:
> On 4 November 2013 01:20, Geoffrey Leach  wrote:
> > Any thoughts on how to access the stick under Fedora?
>
> AFAIU, you need to recompile your kernel in order to get it
>
> http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/MEMSTICK.html
>
> Using PTP you should be able to read it while pluged-in onto the
> camera.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:31:43 -0800,
   Geoffrey Leach  wrote:
> Sigh! What a bummer. But thanks for the info.

Well, if that works, you could ask the Fedora kernel maintainers about 
turning it on. If they know someone is using it and it doesn't cause issues 
for others, I expect they'd be likely to do that.

[Richard Vickery]

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Geoffrey Leach  wrote:
> I have a Sony 128MB memory stick. When inserted, Fedora 19 does not
> recognize it -- lsblk does not show it, dmesg reports nothing. It's
> writable by Windows 7, which reports the device as "JMCR MS SCSI Disk
> Device"
>
> Any thoughts on how to access the stick under Fedora?
> Thanks.

I would try the mount command.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Richard Vickery <[e-mail]
> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Geoffrey Leach  wrote:
> > I have a Sony 128MB memory stick. When inserted, Fedora 19 does not
> > recognize it -- lsblk does not show it, dmesg reports nothing. It's
> > writable by Windows 7, which reports the device as "JMCR MS SCSI Disk
> > Device"
> >
> > Any thoughts on how to access the stick under Fedora?
> > Thanks.
>
> I would try the mount command.

He can't mount it if the system hasn't assigned a device name.

poc