Fedora Users — Problem with a flash memory reader/writer

I just bought a PPA 9-in-1 reader/writer. It's a USB 2.0 device. From reading the howto's it should be pretty much automatically recognized and work, but it doesn't. Following are the lines from the messages file. Running lsusb only shows an entry for my USB mouse. Anyone have a clue about this?

Jul 3 20:56:05 gmc kernel: sda: Unit Not Ready, sense: Jul 3 20:56:05 gmc kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current 00:00: sense key Not Ready Jul 3 20:56:05 gmc kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Jul 3 20:56:05 gmc kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Jul 3 20:56:05 gmc kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready Jul 3 20:56:05 gmc kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.

Jul 3 20:56:05 gmc kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled Jul 3 20:56:05 gmc kernel: sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Jul 3 20:56:05 gmc kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Jul 3 20:56:05 gmc kernel: unable to read partition table

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Gordon Charrick
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