USB SanDisk doesn't work

[Matthew Flaschen]

Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:58:44 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 
>> Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>>> [quoted text muted]
>> I have s Sandisk Cruzer Micro too, and I believe the culprit is U3 
>> (basically a proprietary version of Portable Apps).  U3 has delusions of 
>> grandeur, including claiming it is a CD-ROM device.  The solution I 
>> chose was to completely reformat the disk (of course copy all data off 
>> first) with parted.
>>
>> Can you reply with the output from:
>>
>> # parted /dev/sdb print
>>
>> Matt Flaschen
> 
> [root at mbrc15 ~]# ls /dev/sd*
> /dev/sda  /dev/sda1  /dev/sda2  /dev/sda3  /dev/sdb
> [root at mbrc15 ~]# parted /dev/sdb print
> Error: Error opening /dev/sdb: No medium found

I don't know why you're getting that error, when that device file 
clearly exists.

Matt Flaschen