Re: [ALUG] What do these "Kernel Errors" mean?

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:05:30AM +0000, Karl Foley wrote:

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    Mar  7 18:36:19 chris kernel: [90286.627562] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd]
 Assuming drive cache: write through
    Mar  7 18:36:19 chris kernel: [90286.627564] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd]
 Attached SCSI removable disk
    Mar  7 18:37:59 chris kernel: [90386.509844] EXT3-fs (sdd): error:
 can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdd.
    Mar  7 18:37:59 chris kernel: [90386.536201] EXT2-fs (sdd): error:
 can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sdd.
    Mar  7 18:37:59 chris kernel: [90386.580300] EXT4-fs (sdd): VFS:
 Can't find ext4 filesystem

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 The same USB drive works perfectly (i.e. automounts) in another xubuntu
 11.10 system.

What log entries do you get on the working system?

Exactly the same up as far as the error messages, then no errors but the USB stick automounts:-

Mar 8 09:35:37 acer-aspire kernel: [52988.621621] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through Mar 8 09:35:37 acer-aspire kernel: [52988.621635] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [followed by nothing for several minutes, USB has mounted]