>>> This thingy mounts as /media/My Passport >>> Or some such. Its unplugged not so I can't check(note embedded space in >>> name)
>> It is an ro U3 partition on the WD usb drive. > That makes vague sense if WD is trying to play some games. It is a feature! ;) There's probably Windows backup software on it; and who knows what else. In addition to the Windows/Linux link earlier, here's Windows and Mac U3-removal software: http://u3.com/support/default.aspx#CQ3 From http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/jafo_20090918_011812 After digging around some and finding that my Sandisk Cruzer 32GB was failing to work in my car stereo because it was showing up as a CD-ROM drive because of "U3" crud (a Windows convenience), Jim DeWitt found a Linux utility that I was able to use to get rid of that CD-ROM partition without requiring me to find a Windows machine. I wanted to make this post so that others in a similar situation could find it, since I wasn't able to find anything by search for things like "linux u3 uninstall". There's a program called "u3-tool" at Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u3-tool/). This tool built easily enough, but I ran into issues when trying to use it via libusb. What I ended up doing was running "./src/u3-tool -p0 /dev/sdb". That caused it to create a 0-length U3 partition. At that point, ejecting and re-inserting the USB drive caused it to only show the USB storage device, and not the CD-ROM device. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/6d4219cc1003252025o94ce313w733bf1f2de5f...@mail.gmail.com
