Re: Wrong identification of a USB flash drive.
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:09, Florian Kulzer
<florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
>
> 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.
You can kill U3 without that utility. I did it once, with Parted I believe.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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