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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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Phone usb driver?

LG has no support for a linux driver at this time for my phone. Nor will they because its an older phone. Ubuntu doesn't recognize my phone it just charges it. I tried using bitpim to access my ...
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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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USB external drive is not recognized by any OS, how to troubleshoot in Ubuntu?

First of all I would like to inform you that I saw a question similar to mine but the error was different, so here's my problem... I have an external HD samsung s2 model of 500GB and a day to day ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Won't Reconize my USB HDD

I am relatively new to Ubuntu, and I'm having trouble with the computer not recognizing my USB hard drive. It is an 80GB (I can't remember the manufacturer). I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on a Dell ...
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Cannot mount USB memory in Ubuntu 12.04

Over the night I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop. Since I am yet unable to access my actual installation I boot the Live CD from which I installed (takes ages in a fast system). I ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 stopped suddenly to recognize all usb storage.

Storage gets listed in lsub but is not mounted by nautilus. I tried 2 different devices: a usb stick and an external HDD. usb mouse on same port works fine. is there anyway to force mount it? my ...
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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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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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Can I install Ubuntu from a external hard drive?

I have a very simple question... Is it possible to install Ubuntu from a external harddrive? If it is where can I get information on to do it? Thanks in advance for any help.
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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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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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How can I hard reset a USB device? [closed]

I have a USB device (a modem) that is really finicky. Sometimes it works fine, but other times it refuses to connect. The only solution I have found to fix it once it gets into a bad state is to ...