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Strange USB flash drive problem [closed]
I have a USB flash drive, but I cannot access it. Ubuntu does nothing when i plug it in, nothing appears (but the LED on the drive lights up). When I plug it into a Windows 8 machine, an icon appears, ...
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Disable all USB Storage Devices except USB Dongle
I need to disable all USB storage devices except a software Protection Dongle. How do I do it?
I tried black listing the USB storage device, but that seems to block ALL usb devices including the ...
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How to disable USB000 ports in Ubuntu 12.10 but still have the usb keyboard and mouse work?
Please suggest any options to disable the USB ports.
I tried in the blacklist.conf and rebooted, but still the USB device is detecting.
Can you help me to disable the USB ports?
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reasonable USB mount points
Plugging in my Android cellphone in Mass Storage mode mounts the SD card via USB onto an insane pathname like
/media/sp;<_html>/
which of course causes problems later with other programs like ...
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GET flash memory type: SLC or MLC
Just for my knowledge, I would like to know whether the type of flash memory used in my pendrive is SLC or MLC. Is there a way to find it out? I googled but found nothing.
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How can I temporarily suspend Nautilus filesystem automounting, without making permanent changes to the system and user configuration?
I have written a tool which automatically formats and copies files to USB flash drives when they are inserted. It needs the drive to be unmounted to format it.
Normally Nautilus will automatically ...
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Cannot mount USB 3 harddrive
I cannot mount an USB 3 harddrive. When looking at dmesg I got the following error:
[ 96.463269] usb 3-2.1: >new low-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd
[ 96.485777] usb 3-2.1: >New ...
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How to safely remove a USB external drive?
How I can safely remove a USB external drive?
Ubuntu 12.10 does not come with this option, only to "Unmount" the disk, but not "Eject".
I have tried both USB sticks and with my external hard ...
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unable to format usb 1204 [daemon inhibited ]
i try to format my usb 1st time its work all data gone but i can't save any file at this usb .
then i try to check is it working or broken here the report
santos@santos:~$ sudo badblocks -v ...
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0answers
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external disk dont work on ubuntu
i have problem with in my ubuntu: when i connect external imation apollo disc i dont see a file system. Disk is working because in windows OS on this same computer it works as well.
when i typed ...
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Auto mount USB Drive as READ ONLY [closed]
Good day!
I was looking for a way to quickly mount a USB Drive as READ ONLY. I see lots of issues of people having it mount read only when they do want to but in my case I need to ensure the USB ...
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how can I prevent nautilus from running when I plug in a USB stick?
I run XFCE4 on Ubuntu 11.10.
When I plug in a USB memory stick, I get two new windows popping up, both showing the contents of the memory stick. One is Thunar (which I want) and one is nautilus ...
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Making nautilus/cp/scp/rsync “progress” cache-aware
When transferring moderately large files (~500-800 MB) to/from a USB disk in nautilus, or using (s)cp (with progress bar from ...
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Only 746.52 GB of 3TB drive is seen when accessed via USB enclosure. Works fine internally
I have a Mediasonic Smart Drive SuperSpeed 3.5" SATA HDD External Enclosure - USB 3.0 [HD6-SU3-BK]. It has the VIA VL700 - Super-Speed USB 3.0 to SATA controller which is supposed to support 3TB ...
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1answer
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How to troubleshoot slow USB2.0
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit and writing to a USB 2.0 device is very slow. I have two USB hard drives and two USB keys that I've tried. I've tried using nautilus drag and drop, cp, and rsync ...
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1answer
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How do I make usb sticks not ever use any write cache?
That is, I want to be able to pluck them out anytime without worrying if data will be lost. I want every write to actually be written immediately.
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Does Ubuntu support USB 1.0?
I have a 16 GB 1.0 USB Stick in titanium with leather bound, which i happen to love. I know it works in Vista (of all things) but in Ubuntu 11.04 (i also have gnome 3, if that may affect, but am ...
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3answers
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My Passport Essential external usb 3.0 drive runs at usb 2.0 speed
0 WD My passport drive plugged into a (blue) usb 3.0 port. I mount it and it transfers at about 14MByte/sec. Under windows 7 (I have dual boot) it transfers at about 120 to 230 MByte/sec on the same ...
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0answers
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usb3 device only detected as usb2 device [closed]
I've got a bug filed as my USB3 thumb drive in Maverick and Natty only gets detected as a USB2 device (please find some details below).
Launchpad bug record
Has anyone an idea how to troubleshoot ...
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2answers
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How many usb hard drives can be plugged into a laptop using a port replicator?
I've got a laptop with 2 USB 2.0 and 1 USB 3.0 ports and I would like to know how many USB hard drives I could plug into it. Is there a hard limit in the Linux kernel?
On the performance side, what ...
