JP Vossen on 23 Apr 2016 14:58:50 -0700


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[PLUG] Flash drive "No medium found"

My son has a really cool Victorinox Swiss Army 4GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive [1], but someone knocked a computer over at school when he was using it and now it doesn't work. The drive itself is fine, no visible damage, but when inserted it just flashes red (fast, constant) and while the computer recognizes it, it says "No medium found" no matter what I do.
NOTE: he actually has backups, so we don't care about the data, but it's just a cool little drive. 

Inserted:
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Apr 23 14:48:51 hostname kernel: [7942317.384020] usb 1-6.4: new high-speed USB device number 15 using ehci-pci Apr 23 14:48:51 hostname kernel: [7942317.476342] usb 1-6.4: New USB device found, idVendor=048d, idProduct=1167 Apr 23 14:48:51 hostname kernel: [7942317.476346] usb 1-6.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 Apr 23 14:48:51 hostname kernel: [7942317.476618] usb-storage 1-6.4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected Apr 23 14:48:51 hostname kernel: [7942317.476724] scsi host6: usb-storage 1-6.4:1.0 Apr 23 14:48:51 hostname mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 15: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-6/1-6.4" 
Apr 23 14:48:51 hostname mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 15 was not an MTP device
Apr 23 14:48:52 hostname kernel: [7942318.476575] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access XXXXXXXX U167CONTROLLER 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 Apr 23 14:48:52 hostname kernel: [7942318.476898] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 Apr 23 14:48:52 hostname kernel: [7942318.479074] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk 
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Tried:
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# mount /dev/sdc /mnt
mount: no medium found on /dev/sdc

# sfdisk -l /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc: No medium found

# shred -n0 -z -v /dev/sdc
shred: /dev/sdc: failed to open for writing: No medium found

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1024 count=2
dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sdc’: No medium foun
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Googling turns up things like above, and suggestions to find (Windows) USB key flashing programs, but I didn't find anything that looked useful and I probably wouldn't run something like that anyway. FWIW, the actual drive says "MKI" and USA, and "11 173A Feb 2011" on it. 

Clues?  Thanks,
JP

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[1] His was blue, but I now see "unavailable" at http://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Swiss-Army-Flash-Drive/dp/B00A3ISWPO/ 
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