That's reminiscent of what I've seen with certain kinds of cell phones, where the USB port can switch personalities and look like different kinds of devices -- say a flash disk and a speaker/microphone. I've not seen anything before that switches between two different kinds of flash drives, though.
It also sounds like it could be some sort of hardware security/encryption feature that got turned on. The fact that your getting any response at all makes it sound like it's probably not a completely broken connection. Another possibility could be that could be related to the loose pin would be that there is either not enough current reaching the flash drive (if the pin is one of the power pins) so it is in some kind of "power saving" or maintenance mode, or there is a short circuit or at least partial electromagnetic coupling between the loose pin and one of the other pins that's that's keeping things from working properly. Just some shotgun ideas that may not have anything to do with what's going on. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
