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Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.



On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 17:16:43 +0200, Peter Beck wrote:
> > On 2009-08-22 09:16, Mark Neidorff wrote:

[...]

> >  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.
> 
> AFAIK the Sandisk Cruzers are U3 Sticks and i think the U3 System is
> shown as a CD-Drive and the storage as usb drive. There is a Tool from
> Sandisk to disable the U3 functionality and use the sticks without this
> software, but it's a windows executable.

http://u3-tool.sourceforge.net/

The u3-tool package is available in the Debian main archive, but only
for Squeeze and Sid.

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