Thanks for all the advice so far - very much appreciated. I will try the suggested Commands etc over the course of the weekend. However, out of personal curiousity as much as anything, I will also investigate exactly what BIOS Fimrware is installed and see what info Google uncovers in regard of its ...

At times I've had problems with some usb drives not being detected (especially at boot time) and it can be helpful to force the usb hub to reboot. This thread might suggest some ideas that might be worth trying: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81417 Having had a peek at the BIOS I do w...

The current Puppies's kernels should have the usb drivers ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd and ohci_hcd and usb-storage compiled into the kernel , so they should not need to be loaded . I would take a look into /tmp/bootkernel.log if the FlashDrive is plugged into the 'puter at bootup, otherwise a dmesg |grep -i...

I booted from CD using the argument "puppy pfix=ram" as suggested but, alas, without success.

Arthur

rcrsn51 wrote:I am really surprised that you are seeing this on two different machines with different Puppies.

Try doing a fresh boot off the CD using the boot argument "puppy pfix=ram".

OK - I will try this tomorrow and report back.

Thanks.

Arthur

rcrsn51 wrote:Just to be clear - when you plug in a flash drive, you do NOT get an icon for it on the bottom row of the desktop?

No.

rcrsn51 wrote:Which Puppy version are you using?

Slacko 5.4 on the laptop in the original post.

Interestingly I am also have exactly the same issues on my Dell Inspiron laptop which is running Precise 5.4.3

Arthur

Any further advice would still be greatly appreciated.

Arthur

tallboy wrote:Hi Arthur45.
If your Toshiba has USB3, you should take a look at this thread: New lappie, no Puppy.
Oh, and Welcome to the forum!

tallboy

Thanks for the fast response.

No, it doesn't have USB 3. It was made in 2004 / 5

Arthur

I have installed Puppy Linux on my Toshiba Equium. However USB flash drives do not appear to be recognized. I have tried several different drives ( all of which are recognized almost instantly on both XP and Ubuntu) on all of the USB Ports. I have also run / refreshed the "P Mount" tool. N...