Reformatting a USB stick that shows up as two devices?
Adam Funk
a24061 at ducksburg.com
Thu Nov 20 19:57:35 UTC 2008
On 2008-11-20, Mark Haney wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>
>>>
>>> The recommendation of unmounting to see if the drive disappear isn't
>>> going to help in this case. As HAL is likely to unmount both drives
>>> together.
>>
>> Both drives can be mounted and unmounted separately using pmount &
>> pumount (or Nautilus).
>>
>> The drives have different sizes too.
>>
>>
>
> You know, I've seen this with my MP3 player. I have a 2GB SD card in my
> player and it mounts as two separate drives. I don't suppose this is a
> flash drive with a SD slot?
>
> What does this device do in Windows or another Linux box?
The same thing. It shows up as two drives: a 128MB one and a much
smaller one (which originally had Windows drivers for the bigger one).
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