[plug] SanDisk USB drive

[Adrian Chadd]

I wonder if that makes it easier to boot off them..



Adrian

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008, William Kenworthy wrote:
> I have something similar - a 256Mb usb drive with a 1.4 mbyte partition
> mimicking a floppy disk.  The partitioning appears to be in hardware as
> I couldnt recover it.  All parts are mountable - you just need to find
> out what it appears to linux as first!  From memory, /dev/sda was raw
> with a fat16 FS and a floppy image, whilst the main was /dev/sdb1 with a
> vfat FS.  When in windows, it would look like a separate floppy and a
> usb drive
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 12:47 +0900, Garry wrote:
> > Can't you just ignore the small partition?
> > 
> > If you are only using <100MB/~3990MB you aren't really going to miss it 
> > are you?
> > 
> > Or didn't I understand?
> > 
> > 8^)
> > 
> > Garry
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