Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.
On Saturday 22 August 2009 10:48 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-22 09:16, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> > This is in the category of P.A.T. (Petty Annoyances and Tedium) but I
> > still would like to know why it is happening. That knowledge should tell
> > me how to fix the problem.
> >
> > My system is Lenny 5.02, but the same problem exists on an old Fedora
> > Core 3 system, so it is not a Debian problem, per se.
> >
> > I just bought a 3 pack of Sandisk Cruzers (4Gb). When I insert any of
> > them into a USB port, the system recognizes it as a CD drive.
>
> By "the system", do you mean lines in dmesg, or the icon on your
> desktop?
>
> > Working around
> > this is easy, but what is causing the system to mis-identify the Cruzer?
> > The only things on the cruzer are the files that automatically run under
> > windows ("autorun.inf, LaunchU3.exe" which put a different way of
> > unounting the device on the screen, and a System subdirectory and a
> > Documents
> > subdirectory).
Both on the desktop and in dmesg. Here is the relavent info from dmesg:
Vendor: SanDisk Model: SanDisk Cruzer Rev: 8.02
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdc: 7856127 512-byte hdwr sectors (4022 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdc: 7856127 512-byte hdwr sectors (4022 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
sdc: sdc1
Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi14, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: SanDisk Model: SanDisk Cruzer Rev: 8.02
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 00
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x tray
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi14, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
usb-storage: device scan complete
Looks like it is mounted twice?
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