On Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 9:16 AM Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> wrote:

On 12/21/21 23:33, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 8:42 PM Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> I have a 32Gb USB stick that is not showing up gparted.
>>
>> I insert it and I see it in /dev as sdb. No partitions.
>>
>> I tried fdisk:
>>
>> # fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>> fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found
>>
>>
>> Is this dead? Is there some other tool I can use to get it working? If
>> there was ever anything on the drive, it would only be a copy of
>> something, so nothing to try and recover. Other than a nice 32G USB stick.
>>
>> thanks!
>>
> Did you check dmesg for error messages associated with it?

just reinserted it and checked out dmesg:

[310838.123104] usb 5-2: new high-speed USB device number 32 using xhci_hcd
[310838.250288] usb 5-2: New USB device found, idVendor=ffff,
idProduct=1201, bcdDevice= 0.00
[310838.250311] usb 5-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0,
SerialNumber=0
[310838.255566] usb-storage 5-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[310838.258932] scsi host1: usb-storage 5-2:1.0
[310839.294989] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access NAND USB2DISK
0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[310839.299399] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[310839.299732] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Media removed, stopped polling
[310839.301528] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

But:

# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found

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