Doesn't sound good if it's not recognized correctly as storage. Sounds like either the controller, or the flash itself is finished. If you like soldering you could swap out the controller (buy a similar flash drive, swap the flash), but you're out of luck if the flash itself ran out of life. Testdisk and photorec work great for software recovery, as root, but they need to see a storage device entry. -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > Trying to help a friend out with a usb drive that shows up under lsusb, but > does not show up as a storage device. (was working) > > lsusb: Bus 001 Device 005: ID 090c:3000 Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan > (formerly Feiya Technology Corp.) > > > Chip info: Hynix H27UBGBT2BIR BC 113AA > > In very small print, possibly M1VKR016JJ (don't have magnify glass) > > What linux tools or methods might be available to try and get the device to > show up as a storage device? > > -- > Raymond Norton > LCTN > 952.955.7766 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list