[Nottingham] Deleting virtual CD drive from Western Digital USB HDD

[Martin]

On 09/09/10 13:42, Simon Sleaford wrote:
> Hi Martin
> 
> This is the results of the command:
> 
> *simon at 106602-1004:~$ ls -lh /dev/sd* /dev/sr**
> *brw-rw----  1 root disk   8,  0 2010-09-09 10:54 /dev/sda*
> *brw-rw----  1 root disk   8,  1 2010-09-09 10:52 /dev/sda1*
> *brw-rw----  1 root disk   8,  2 2010-09-09 10:54 /dev/sda2*
> *brw-rw----  1 root disk   8,  5 2010-09-09 10:52 /dev/sda5*
> *brw-rw----  1 root disk   8, 16 2010-09-09 12:53 /dev/sdb*
> *brw-rw----  1 root disk   8, 17 2010-09-09 12:53 /dev/sdb1*
> *brw-rw----  1 root disk   8, 32 2010-09-09 11:09 /dev/sdc*
> *brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11,  0 2010-09-09 13:19 /dev/sr0*
> *brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11,  1 2010-09-09 12:53 /dev/sr1*
> *simon at 106602-1004:~$ *
> 
> 
> As you can see it sees it as a cdrom drive but it's actually on Western
> Digital Passport USB hard drive. ...

Are sdb,sdb1,sdc and sr0,sr1 the same one physical device?... Or is sr0
a real "cdrom" device?


> there and don't have anywhere to copy it to. 

Eeek... You must always keep a safe backup somewhere. That includes a
backup-of-your-backup if you are doing dubious things to your backup!


> I knows it's only a single gigabyte out of 320GB but I'm a bit annoyed
> that Western Digital decided that I would like their software in a
> difficult to remove partition on my drive.

Manufacturer coercion is rather annoying. It's also annoying to know
that you can't make full utilisation of whatever device... Mmmm...
Perhaps that's why we have the FOSS and FSF evangelists?!


Which partition does your backup data appear on?

Cheers,
Martin


FOSS: Free Open Source Software
FSF: Free Software Foundation

(Free meaning "freedom")

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