I have purchased a 4Gb USB key from Verbatim.
How can I use it under Ubuntu? I do not need the "secure data" feature, and have still not saved anything on it, so formatting at low level would be OK.
However, I was not able to do it, although I tried several things.
Some details: The Key comes with a windows-only application which (under Windows) forces you to set a (non empty) password before the first use. Then , every time you insert the key, it asks for the password to grant access. The key actually has two partitions, the smaller one (41Mb) containing the auto-executable software and doc, and the bigger one (the actual storage space) being initially empty.
In Ubuntu, I can only see the small partition with ls or a file manager.
However, "ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/*usb*" outputs:
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Verbatim_Secure_Data_USB_070007013AA6EDB2DE98-0:0 -> ../../sdb /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Verbatim_Secure_Data_USB_070007013AA6EDB2DE98-0:1 -> ../../sr1
Surprisingly, "sudo mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdb" says:
/dev/sdb: No medium found
and "sudo mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sr1" says:
mkfs.vfat: unable to open /dev/sr1: Read-only file system
Indeed, /dev/sr1 is marked brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11
... which could explain why the system is read-only!
Finally, I do not see any of the two partitions in gparted or with "sudo fdisk -l"
Thanks for your help!
Bernoot
