Reformatting a USB stick that shows up as two devices?
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Fri Nov 21 14:23:40 UTC 2008
Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2008-11-21, Neil wrote:
>
>> What is the exact brand and type of the disk?
>
> All it says:
>
> integral
> 128 MB
> USB 2.0 Flash Drive
>
>> It may be as people have already suggested: 2 separate disks for some
>> reason (most probably), but it may be that the same disk is displayed
>> twice for some reason. Have you actually written files to the disk? If
>> these files apear in both disks you should forget about it, it's just
>> irritating and a minor incompatibility problem between the stick and
>> Linux.
>
> No, they really act like two different drives, on Linux, Windows, and
> Mac OS X.
>
>
What does fdisk say about each of those devices /sdc and /sdd?
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