Re: disable mounting of bogus CD device on Toshiba USB stick?
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:57:09PM +1100, Paul Wise wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [As indicated in the Reply-To, please CC me on any replies]
>
> I got a Toshiba USB stick recently. It exposes two devices; a normal
> writable USB mass storage device, and a faked USB optical drive. The
> optical drive contains some windows apps for what seems to be a
> management application for portable applications. Since I run only
> Debian GNU/Linux on my laptop and have no use for the Windows app, I'd
> like GNOME automount to ignore the fake optical drive that the USB stick
> exposes. Does anyone know how to make GNOME not mount specific devices?
>
> This is what lsusb tells me:
>
> Bus 005 Device 005: ID 0930:6540 Toshiba Corp. TransMemory USB Flash Memory
[snip]
> PS: If anyone from Toshiba is reading, I'd love to be able alter the
> stick so that it doesn't expose this bogus USB optical drive, so send me
> some specs please :)
Does /var/log/syslog give you one device or two? Are they two
partitions on one drive or what? If so, can you just repartition the
USB stick so that there is only one and put a new filesystem on the new
partition?
Doug.
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