Messages in this thread | | | From | "H.Rosmanith (Kernel Mailing List)" <> | Subject | Re: usb-storage: how to ruin your hardware(?) | Date | Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:57:13 +0200 (MET DST) |
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But it's always possible to repair > > such a drive with the vendor supplied formating utility, which is windows
by the way ... this is wrong. as it turned out later, it was not possible to repair the usb-flashdisk-utility from the vendor. in w2k, it will appears as "unknown security device" with a big yellow question mark. so if you want to ruin your stick, proceed as follows: - fdisk /dev/sd? - go to expert menu - set numer of cyls twice as high - go back to normal menu - make partition of full size with new cyl.count
happy mke2fsing ;-)
after rebooting (machine will be in unusable state), the device wont be recognized as usb-storage device. reason: the number of usb-endpoints suddenly dropped to 0 (zero). I don't know if every stick acts this way .. but the Panram one does definitely.
all right then. end of thread ... h.rosmanith
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