Re: ZoomFloppy

From: Nate Lawson <*nate_at_root.org*> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:22:00 -0700 Message-Id: <F8E049D5-6B9D-4A1C-9280-D5AA3C7FCDCC@root.org> · nate_at_root.org

On Jun 13, 2011, at 4:10 AM, Ingo Korb wrote:

> Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes:
> 
>> I think the driver for the U3 hardware is behaving improperly. If you
>> uninstall the U3 driver and let the Windows native driver handle the
>> USB flash portion, you shouldn't see any problems.
> 
> An U3 flash drive does not install any special drivers, it's controller
> just partitions the flash space and presents it to the computer as two
> different devices: A CD-ROM with the U3 software so Windows auto-starts
> from it and a standard flash drive for the user data.
> 
> -ik
> 

I see. The problem then is that his auto-run is launching the "LaunchU3.exe" program from the virtual CDROM, and that program is not written properly to co-exist with other device types. So the solution is to disable auto-run.

-Nate
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