Reformatting a USB stick that shows up as two devices?

[Chris G]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:12:34AM -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
> > I have a USB memory stick that shows up as two drive devices (/dev/sdc
> > and /dev/sdd, along with partitions /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2).  Is it
> > possible to reformat the whole thing into one?
> > 
> > 
> 
> It's certainly possible.  I would just use fdisk to delete both existing 
> partitions and create a single partition that covers the entire drive. 

If the USB stick *really* appears as /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd it's two
drives so that fdisk will see two 'entire drives' to partition.
Deleting the partitions doesn't help at all.

I suspect though that the symptoms are due to un-removed remains from
previous times the USB stick has been plugged in.

-- 
Chris Green