On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:37:11 +0100 frantisek holop <min...@obiit.org> wrote:
> hi there, > > the sandisk cruzer line of pen-drives (i have a 4G) > are U3 smart pen-drives that have a hidden partition > or whatever it is: www.u3.com . > > in openbsd it comes up as cd* besides the sd* part. > i had no luck mounting it or using it in any way. > IIRC in windows it comes up as a separate drive letter. > > in some cases after inserting this pen-drive it > makes hotplugd run in circles and if left there > it brings down the whole machine. > > has anybody experinced something similar? > i imagine it's quite a common pen-drive. > > -f U3... Yes, too many sticks have that "feature". First step after unpacking it is to erase the U3 stuff. They have a prog for that on their site. * After that its just a plain drive and you even get some megs of extra space. As i dont use those drives with U3 still on it, i have no idea why OpenBSD might get hickups. - Robert (* Windows software, usually not too hard to find one can use for that once of wipe. Also a chance to lecture ppl on turing off autorun.)
