[Gllug] USB memory stick appears as two devices

[John G Walker]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:03:30 +0000 Christopher Hunter
<chrisehunter at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 14:09 +0000, John Winters wrote:
> > I've just bought myself a new Kingston 1GB memory stick but get
> > something slightly odd when I plug it into a computer - whether
> > running Windows or Linux.  It appears as two devices; not even as
> > two partitions on one device.
> > 
> 
> I found the same thing with a 2 Gb San Disk stick I bought recently.

So what's going on here? Anyone know why manufacturers are doing this?
Presumably there must be some sort of advantage to someone, but I can't
see it,


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 All the best,
 John
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