So I bit the bullet tonight and bought an 8gb Sandisk Cruzer at wal mart when I saw the tux logo on the back. Further reading showed it's officially supported by Mac, Linux, XP, and Vista. Sounds like my kind of flash drive since I use all of those operating systems at work!
So anyway, the Cruzer works in my system in Ubuntu just fine. Yet the A-DATA still does not respond... yet works fine in XP and Vista. I'm starting to wonder if I even used it in my system. I'm willing to bet my car that I did, because I remember transferring some new stuff to it. But...djafkl;sjdklasd... I swear I did. I just can't see where things went wrong for it to not work anymore under Ubuntu.
But, nonetheless, I have a working flash drive under this system and I'm at least happy.
Now, I'm on the lookout to see if this particular flash drive is officially tested with Ubuntu/Linux or not. Anybody know if A-DATA is known to support Linux? Or if anybody here has that flash drive? I don't know the model number, but it's a rubber orange/black model. It's really kind of unique so if you have it you'd know it... so if you have it and it works with Ubuntu, I'd like to know!