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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