It is possible for a USB storage device to become logically disconnected: the device is still plugged in, but is invisible from the operating system (e.g. it's not listed under /proc/bus/usb). Maybe this can happen to other kinds of USB or other removable devices as well. This can happen for example:after Nautilus has unmounted a USB storage device;after VirtualBox has claimed a USB storage device (the device disappears from the Linux host when it is attached in the guest, and does not automatically reappear if it is detached from the guest).What is going on in the driver or in the hardware, and most importantly, (how) can the device be logically reconnected (without physically plugging it out and back in)?Note that this question is not about mounting. In the logically disconnected state, the kernel believes there is nothing on the USB bus (and so of course there is no entry under /dev).
How to reconnect a logically disconnected USB device?
linux;usb;usb drive