Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose.

From	Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose.
Date	2017-05-28 16:50 +0200
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Le 28/05/2017 à 16:08, Jamie White a écrit :
> I would suspect you need a specialist application to sort this, thing is,
> when you plug in a disk drive, the system uses information from the first
> sector to identify the drive and its size.

No, this information is not stored in the first sector nor anywhere else 
in the storage area. It is retrieved using a drive identification 
command, not a sector read command.

> You get a similar problem when you zero out an entire hard disk

No, it is a completely different problem. It destroys partition tables, 
partitions and filesystems, not drive identification.

> and there the solution is to manually enter into the bios the hard drive.

I don't see what you mean exactly, but that won't solve either problem.

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Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-05-26 23:10 +0200
  Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-05-27 00:20 +0200
    storage devices with same marketing size having different number of  blocks David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-05-27 04:30 +0200
    Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-05-27 04:30 +0200
  Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-05-27 03:20 +0200
    Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-05-27 21:50 +0200
      Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-05-27 23:30 +0200
        Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-28 06:00 +0200
  Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-28 12:00 +0200
    Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. Jamie White <jatos.software@gmail.com> - 2017-05-28 16:10 +0200
      Re: Kingston Thumb Drive Comatose. Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-28 16:50 +0200

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