On 2010-03-25 20:20, Tom H wrote:
I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this
before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern
features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive
has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS). When I plug it in, it mounts as 2
partitions. One is called /dev/sda1 and the other is called
/dev/sr0. I have succeeded in removing /dev/sda1 using fdisk and
bulling thru warning messages about large number of cylinders.
sr0 ??????
That's you CD/DVD drive!!!!
No. My two CD/DVD drives are /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd .
But Linux thinks that sr0 is a SCSI cd/dvd drive.
"tail -fn40 /var/log/syslog" while you plug in the WD drive would be
most illuminating.
This thingy mounts as /media/My Passport
Or some such. Its unplugged not so I can't check(note embedded space in name)
And it isn't there when I pull the USB plug.
It is an ro U3 partition on the WD usb drive.
That makes vague sense if WD is trying to play some games.
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