"clickfree" USB HDD

[Tyler Aviss]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Jon VanAlten <vanaltj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Are you sure it is two separate pieces of physical storage, and not
> two partitions of the same drive?  Either way, have you had a look at
> it with something like gparted?
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> We recently got some of these at work. When they're plugged in, they
>> show up with a small "47mb" filesystem with the software that autoruns
>> in windows, as well as a regular drive.
>> The small filesystem appears to show as a ISO9660 drive (fake CD-ROM
>> drive?). I'm guessing that it's just a little bit of flash memory,
>> perhaps an embedded SD card or something similar.
>>
>> If it's a ROM chip I'm guessing it can't be changed. Alternately,
>> anyone know of a way I might overwrite that little area of flash drive
>> with something useful (like a rescue image)?
>>
>>
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I get an sr1 (the 46MB ROM) and a 250GB /dev/sdb (the drive). Here's
what the log shows when it plugs in:

[2505116.870308] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 15
[2505117.031585] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[2505117.032786] scsi19 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[2505117.033022] usb-storage: device found at 15
[2505117.033027] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning

[2505122.032061] usb-storage: device scan complete
[2505122.032840] scsi 19:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SAC      SAC-Click
free   7.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[2505122.033299] scsi 19:0:0:1: CD-ROM            SAC      Virtual
Cdrom    7.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[2505122.034162] sd 19:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[2505122.035922] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 1x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[2505122.036192] sr 19:0:0:1: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[2505122.036314] sr 19:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
[2505122.045877] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] 487987199 512-byte logical blocks:
(249 GB/232 GiB)
[2505122.051356] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[2505122.051360] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[2505122.051362] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[2505122.055885] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[2505122.055892]  sdb: sdb1
[2505122.132588] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[2505122.132600] sd 19:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[2505122.671401] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
[2505122.671901] ISOFS: changing to secondary root



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