On 2010-03-25 20:20, Tom H wrote:
I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS). When I plug it in, it mounts as 2 partitions. One is called /dev/sda1 and the other is called /dev/sr0. I have succeeded in removing /dev/sda1 using fdisk and bulling thru warning messages about large number of cylinders.sr0 ??????That's you CD/DVD drive!!!!No. My two CD/DVD drives are /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd .
But Linux thinks that sr0 is a SCSI cd/dvd drive."tail -fn40 /var/log/syslog" while you plug in the WD drive would be most illuminating.
This thingy mounts as /media/My Passport Or some such. Its unplugged not so I can't check(note embedded space in name) And it isn't there when I pull the USB plug.It is an ro U3 partition on the WD usb drive.
That makes vague sense if WD is trying to play some games. -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower