Why not using such a feature? Of cause this "cdrom" can be easily deleted from the U3 device. But I've found a way to load a custom iso image of arbitrary size into U3 device (I can describe how - if somebody is interested). I'm thinking it may be useful to have such a read-only "partition". Also I'm wondering if it's possible to boot the system from this "cdrom". Though my first try to boot movix has been unsuccessful.
Cheers, Sergey ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Roman Kyrylych" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:38:45 +0300 >2007/9/14, Sergey Manucharian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm using U3 Cruzer USB 1GB flash drive. >> As many people may know upon plugging-in it provides both regular >> storage device and cdrom functionality. >> >> Before the latest system update I could use and mount both devices >> without any problem. Now I've noticed that cdrom device disappeared. >> >> I've checked this issue running the system from both Archlinux 0.8 >> and Archlinux 2007.08.1 cds. >> >> The following are the dmesg output after I plugged-in U3 Cruzer USB >> flash drive. >> >> ........ >> >> So something is changed. >> Could somebody explain this please? >> And is there a way to enable the old behavior? >> > >I think this is a kernel change. >I don't see a reason why it should be seen as a CD (except for U3 >"feature" support on Windows, maybe) so I guess this was done >intentionally by kernel developers. > >-- >Roman Kyrylych _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
