SuSE Studio Imagewriter can not see the USB stick.

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Ref:
opensuse 13.2
imagewriter 1.10.13
USB stick 16Gb 3.0

Problem: I am trying to make a USB boot with live tumbleweed 64 b. Linux sees it as USB disk but imagewriter can not see it.
Is this related to the size? or to the 3.0? I used to have no problems with USB sticks of 4Gb 2.0.

I know I can use dd but this was a nice way to do it.

Thank you for your help.

-=terry=-

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What OS are you running imagewriter under?

problems have bee reported in Win8+

If running in Windows you may want to use

http://www.osforensics.com/tools/write-usb-images.html

I just us cp to copy direct to the USB device (not a partition on the device)

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Thxs for your reply.
opensuse 13.2

I just did few things and the problem may not be related to the imagewriter.

  1. the usb stick (16 Gb 3.0) is recognized by fdisk but is not listed

ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/usb

  1. I tried 4 different brand new stick (all the same) and same results

  2. I remove it and reinsert a USB stick 4Gb 2.0. This can be seen by fdisk and also by

ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/usb

Any ideas why?

-=terry=-

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Hi
Is udisks2 installed?

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Yes, I have just checked it
udisks2 2.1.3-2.1.5-x86_64

Thank you Malcolm

-=terry=-

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I have just realize it shows as USB disk and can be mounted but it does not show as removable USB and that’s probably why Imagewriter does not see it.

-=terry=-

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On Mon 07 Dec 2015 06:36:01 PM CST, tdecampo wrote:

I have just realize it shows as USB disk and can be mounted but it does
not show as removable USB and that’s probably why Imagewriter does not
see it.

-=terry=-

Hi
If you plug the device in and run the command lsblk, do you see the
device?

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Malcolm

lsblk …snip …

sdh 8:112 1 14.8G 0 disk
└─sdh1 8:113 1 14.8G 0 part /run/media/tdec/USB DISK
…snip…

Yes I can see it and it is mounted

Initially I though the problem resided in udev but after running the next 2 commands the problem may occur later. I tried to changes settings in the device notifier without any success
.

dmesg | grep sdh

[586789.161581] sdh: sdh1
[586789.166218] sd 30:0:0:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI removable disk
[586908.410331] sd 31:0:0:0: [sdh] 30965760 512-byte logical blocks: (15.8 GB/14.7 GiB)
[586908.411822] sd 31:0:0:0: [sdh] Write Protect is off
[586908.411824] sd 31:0:0:0: [sdh] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[586908.413317] sd 31:0:0:0: [sdh] No Caching mode page found
[586908.413319] sd 31:0:0:0: [sdh] Assuming drive cache: write through

cat /sys/block/sdh/removable

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Thank you Malcolm

-=terry=-

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Hi
What I do sometimes with USB devices if they are misbehaving is to unmount and then run wipefs -a /dev/sdX to clean it all out… Besides imagewriter needs the device unmounted to write to it, it will ask to unmount. Also not sure about the device capacity, I’ve only used 8GB devices…

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Malcolm,

I think the problem is the size. I do not have any problems with 4GiB sticks either. I just will ignore the imagewriter and try to dd it.

Thank you for your help

-=terry=-

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Hi
Or if in the mood, perhaps raise a bug…?
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports

If you do decide, then post back the bug number :wink:

Else will see if can add a 16G device to my things to get and try it out, hmmm I wonder if it’s because USB 3.0, what is the actual brand of the 16GB one(s)?

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It is one of the generic USB from Microcenter. In the past they have been very reliable. Again, I can mount it as a USB disk, I can write etc. All works perfect except that KDE can not see the removable flag.

-=terry=-