Woody Shea wrote: > First, thank you for the reply. > > I don't think GParted reads the disk right. It reports that the disk > is 251MiB and, when I try to format, it core-dumps. > This might be a "fake thumbdrive". http://linuxrevolution.blogspot.com/2006/08/fake-usb-drives-sleuthing.html kind regards Eberhard