[lug] Gparted doesn't recognize new USB drive

[D. Stimits]

If you run "dmesg --follow", and watch for messages as you plug it in. What shows up?

Sometimes you can use dd or similar to wipe things clean and prevent things like protective MBRs from getting in the way. Then use gdisk or similar to partition. After that apps like gparted work well.

> On 03/12/2021 11:42 AM Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi Everyone.
> 
> I just picked up a new 32GB USB drive, Phillips model # FM32FD758B, USB3.0.
> 
> I can't seem to do anything with it. Packaging specifies "Linux 2.4.0 and
> higher" under compatibility. I guess that's the USB driver version.
> 
> What happens is that I can plug it in, and it shows up as /dev/sde.
> Gparted, invoked as root, doesn't show /dev/sde as an available device.
> 
> Gnome-disks at least shows it, but in the "drive options" drop down, all
> the operations are greyed out, except for "power off". Also, it has no
> info about it, and in the partitions window it displays "no media".
> 
> Here are kernel messages:
> usb 2-4.2: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
> usb 2-4.2: New USB device found, idVendor=13fe, idProduct=6300, bcdDevice=
> 1.00 usb 2-4.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> usb-storage 2-4.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
> scsi host5: usb-storage 2-4.2:1.0
> scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access              2309 PRAM        1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI:
> 0 CCS sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
> sd 5:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
>  * I think this is where I invoked Gparted *
> JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
> SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, no debug enabled
> usb 2-4.2: Disable of device-initiated U1 failed.
> usb 2-4.2: Disable of device-initiated U2 failed.
> 
> A web search on the "Disable..." message returns no results.
> 
> I would think that, irrespective of what's on there from the factory,
> Gparted as root would let me write a new partition table and proceed from
> there.
> 
> So, before I punt and see whether I can use dd to scribble zeroes on the
> first few blocks, does anyone have any ideas, other than plugging it in to
> a Win7 laptop and seeing what happens? Yeah, I'm being stubborn about it. :)
> 
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