On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Michael Moore wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Max Shinn > <max at bernsteinforpresident.com>wrote: > >> On 1/30/13, Erik Mitchell <erik.mitchell at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I've run into this problem a few times. When I plug in a USB mass >>> storage device, such as my Kindle or my iPhone 4, it will show up as a >>> device and I can mount it, and everything is great. >>> >>> However, if I unmount it and unplug it, and then plug it in again, it >>> isn't detected by the USB system. I have tried different cables to no >>> avail. >> > > Do you actually unmount it? I've had this problem with regular USB > devices when I've just pulled the device without unmounting. > > When you insert it again does dmesg tell you that the device has been > detected? If it does, can you mount it manually (with the mount > command)? If you plug it into a Windows machine, does it work there? Then, after that, if you go back to Linux, does it then work there again? Mike