USB 2.0 Flash Drive Detected As Security Device?

[mtnbikerjerry]

Hi,

I was recently using my Butterfly Media USB 2.0 Flash Drive for both Windows XP Pro and Linux Mandrake 9.2.

Then recently my flash drive stopped responding under linux mandrake 9.2 and then when I put the flash drive in Windows XP Pro,

No longer a Mass Storage Driver is detected at all. No Drive letter is assigned.

What happens now is that the USB Flash Drive is now listed in both operating systems as a Security Device.

Linux Mandrake 9.2 used to show Butterfly Media Technologies in hard drake and now it only shows Prolific Technologies.

What the heck happened here?? Did the firmware of the USB Flash Drive get erased? IS there a way of brining it back?

I have looked at the website www.butterflymedia.com and could not find any firmware, and the only firmware is the one for the flash card reader technology.

I am stumped. Any flashware to bring back my USB Flash Drive drive back to life?


I was able to mount in the past successfully, and have correct entries in the fstab, but now my drive froze. What tools can I use to bring my USB Flash Thumb Drive back to live. I just need it to show mass storage device.

HELP!


http://www.butterflymedia.com/Products-Flashdrive2.asp

[mtnbikerjerry]

Here is what I did.

I have a friend that works at Buslink which is the parent owner I believe of Butterfly Media. I am here locally in CA, near Buslink Headquarters.

So I drop in, tell them about my drive situation. They take apart the USB 2.0 Flash Drive Module, and tell me that it was a cold solder and the logic chip inside of it had lost its solder connections.

The memory module portion was not affected. So after this was repaired, my drive was tested out as good as new.

Phew.

A physical defect that finally went bad that just happened the same time when I thought Linux screwed up my Flash Drive.

Problem solved.

Got this other issue now that my SanDisk Mini Cruzer doesn't work too well under Linux Mandrake 9.2 but fine under Redhat 9. Go figure.

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