USB flash drives disappear after some time, or after Net browsing, and cannot be remounted.

Bug #129747 reported by Chino Fernandez
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linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Brian Murray

Bug Description

PQI USB U339 Cool Drive model. Drive disappears from desktop after some time. Possibly after Internet browsing, maybe a script disables it. Attempts to remount drive by plugging in and waiting for icon to appear fail. Can repeatedly happen to flash drive in all my USB ports.

Suggestion on Ubuntu forums said that it's power management for USB, but on Kubuntu I could not find the setting for it.

Perhaps it's controller based. Once it happens on slot 1 of board or casing USB ports, slot 2 also won't work.

My Computer is USB 1.1 only. Celeron 1.2 S370.

Kubuntu 6.06.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

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Chino Fernandez (techtor) wrote : Re: [Bug 129747] Re: USB flash drives disappear after some time, or after Net browsing, and cannot be remounted.

Hello Brian,
Thanks for asking, I haven't been going back to the Launchpad site to check.
So far, the USB drive has stopped dying out on its own after a while,
probably after the next kernel upgrade for Dapper. So it seems solved.

However, another bug surfaced: While the USB thumb drive is plugged in the
rear port, I plugged an ipod in the casing USB port, and both died. Probably
overwhelmed. I also don't have utilities yet for the ipod in my Kubuntu
installation. So I guess that's another issue entirely.

Thanks for the attention to this issue.

Chino F.

On Dec 7, 2007 12:58 PM, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue
> for you? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray (brian-murray)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> USB flash drives disappear after some time, or after Net browsing, and
> cannot be remounted.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129747
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> of the bug.
>

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.
It would be helpful if you were to submit a new bug about the other issue that has surfaced for you. When you submit that bug feel free to subscribe me to it and please include more information about what you mean when you say they both died.

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