[qubes-users] USB stick issue

Hi!

Maybe it's related to recent updates, or my computer is starting to die: Anyway: Today I had plugged in my USB stick and attached it successfully to "vault". I had opened a file from it. The suddenly within one second, I saw the stick being disconnected and reconnected, and the "vault" failed to write the file.

Questions:
1) Is that disconnect expected?
2) Is it expected the a disconnect/reconnect uses a different disk (xvdj vs. xvdi)?
3) Is it expected that the partitions appear twice in the file manager (see attachment)?

Regards,
Ulrich

Maybe it's related to recent updates, or my computer is starting to die:
Anyway: Today I had plugged in my USB stick and attached it successfully
to "vault". I had opened a file from it. The suddenly within one second,
I saw the stick being disconnected and reconnected, and the "vault"
failed to write the file.

that happens also when a "bad electrical connection" happens (worn out
usb plug, for example). Then the usb-"attach" breaks, but the virtual
device number (xvd..) i still blocked, so a reconnect increases the
number (from i to j to k). etc. That is not "expected" but happens.

I would power down sys-usb and vault and try again. And I would not take
data from usb into vault, rather from usb into a dispVM first, if you
need to grab data into vault: There you can still perform (integrity)
checks before copying them to vault...