its an external usb to 2.5" pata drive enclosure and its a chip built into the usb-sata bridge. most annoying. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Ben Trussell wrote: > If its a Sandisk Cruzer there is a utility to remove that infernal > "CD" mount.  check here: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=sandisk+cruzer+u3+removal > > http://u3.sandisk.com/launchpadremoval.htm > > and possibly (possibly) helpful: > > http://u3-tool.sourceforge.net/ > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Stephen wrote: >> I have an external drive that has the same issue. in my case there is >> a small "firmware" that resides on the USB-PATA bridge that has about >> 3-400 MB of stuff on it and mounts as a CD. this definitely fouled all >> my attempts at booting to the device. >> >> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: >>> I got a new machine which (of course) has Windows pre-installed and >>> I'm not ready to dump it entirely just yet so in the meantime, I built >>> out a complete Arch Linux 64-bit system on a portable USB external >>> drive.  I also used or tried to use grub to set it up to boot.  During >>> the original settup session, it appeared to do all this OK but I can't >>> get the laptop to recognize or boot from this device.  I did not >>> modify the master boot record on my laptop; instead, I figured on >>> using the boot menu on the laptop to choose the USB drive; this method >>> works beautifully with an ISO image I burned to a small thumbdrive but >>> I cannot do the same with my larger USB portable drive on which I >>> installed Arch Linux.  Do I have to do anything else to make this >>> thing bootable? >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss