I just joined this group. Found the mailing list name while doing a "strings" on the usb_storage module in FC7T3. Sorry if this is a common question, but googling has not been very helpful.
A friend of mine pulled hist usb stick out of his Windows machine without using the "stop" icon one too many times. Of course he did not have any backups of the data. He asked me to see if I could retrieve any of his data. It looks like the partition table is messed up. If I put the stick in a windows box, it shows up as 2 drive letters (there originally was only one). If you attempt to open either one, it tells you to put media in the drive. (not good). Plugging it into my FC7T3 box (which as front USB connectors) detects the drive and the size. It then says write protect is on. I opened the case and did a close inspection for damage and found none and also found no write protect switch. What I have done on real disks with trashed partition tables is reallocate the partitions over the correct areas. Some of the data is often recoverable. I was going to try this on the USB stick, since I don't know any better. :-) Now the question. Is there a parameter to modprobe usb_storage to force writable? Then I could try do use fdisk on this. Thank you for your time and any pointers. If there are better techniques, pointers to the appropriate documentation would be most welcome. Sincerely, Robert E. Styma Principal Engineer (DMTS) Alcatel-Lucent, Phoenix Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 623-582-7323 Cell: 602-478-0114 Company: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com Personal: http://www.styma.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
