A usb port is not working...

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#1

I have a 16 Gb NTFS usb stick, which I have used since a while.
But now, it’s not working at all in one of the 4 usb ports the laptop has. The other 3 are still functional, but on that one the system does nothing, as though not recognizing the device.

On this laptop I have dual boot with Windows 8, so I tried the usb stick on Windows 8 but here the usb stick worked normally! I also tried the stick on other PC’s and it also worked.

But I tried with another usb stick, a 4 Gb FAT32 one, and this one does work normally with all 4 ports of the laptop on openSUSE.

So I’m having problems with that usb port on openSUSE with the NTFS stick.

Can someone help me?
Thanks.

#2

Odd maybe removed it without first unmounting it for safe removal and it thinks it is still mounted. Try a reboot if you have not already.

#3

try a check disk

#4

Rebooting is useless.
As I said, I don’t think it’s the usb stick itself. It’s that port that is not working on openSUSE at least with that usb stick. With a FAT32 one it’s working.
How do I do check disk? What good would it be for?

#5

check disk could be resolve any errors of the filesystem…try with the command fsck
get the su privileges
and use this code

sudo fsck -p /dev/sdbx

where sdbx is your usb device

#6

have you tried?