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Flip the Removable Media Bit
Posted: February 24th, 2009, 18:20
by LiK
Hello everyone!
Do you know any way i can flip the Removable Media Bit of my USB stick?
Its a 16GB Kingston and the
BootIt program from Lexar does not work with it.
My reason to do this is because i want to make a multiple partitions in my USB drive. And after that make it multiboot (with various OSes and bootable disks)
Some more info
The removable media device setting is a flag contained within the SCSI Inquiry Data response to the SCSI Inquiry command.
Bit 7 of byte 1 (indexed from 0) is the Removable Media Bit (RMB).
A RMB set to zero indicates that the device is not a removable media device. A RMB of one indicates that the device is a removable media device. Drivers obtain this information by using the StorageDeviceProperty request.
Any ideas?
Thank you in advance
Re: Flip the Removable Media Bit
Posted: February 25th, 2009, 14:23
by LiK
i keep searching but seems that nobody got any solution other than the BootIt program from lexar
anyone knows how to modify SCSI Inquiry Data on the drive?
Re: Flip the Removable Media Bit
Posted: March 13th, 2009, 5:35
by guru
Re: Flip the Removable Media Bit
Posted: March 13th, 2009, 5:42
by N.C.
guru wrote:http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html
The page is missing.
Re: Flip the Removable Media Bit
Posted: March 13th, 2009, 6:10
by LiK
yep..
The page you are looking for is no longer available or has been moved.
what is it?
Re: Flip the Removable Media Bit
Posted: March 13th, 2009, 6:30
by guru
Re: Flip the Removable Media Bit
Posted: March 13th, 2009, 6:36
by N.C.
This is better.
Re: Flip the Removable Media Bit
Posted: March 13th, 2009, 6:37
by N.C.
LiK wrote:yep..
The page you are looking for is no longer available or has been moved.
what is it?
Anyway, you can partition the flash medias under linux.
Re: Flip the Removable Media Bit
Posted: March 13th, 2009, 7:29
by guru
It's free advice .. get what you get ..... ;o)
Re: Flip the Removable Media Bit
Posted: March 13th, 2009, 15:25
by dick
Maybe you need a factory type usb production programming tool to set the bit.
Have a look at which controller is used on your memory stick and then visit the flashboot.ru site and see if you can find the correct tool. Most of the tools have an option to set the memory stick as removable or fixed. In fact many parameters can be modified.
Re: Flip the Removable Media Bit
Posted: March 13th, 2009, 17:54
by guru
or just use the utility in my link
Re: Flip the Removable Media Bit
Posted: November 12th, 2009, 18:05
by LiK
guru wrote:http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&swItem=MTX-UNITY-I23839&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
I gave it a try and it didn't do the the thing
Still detected as USB removeable media under windows and unable to partition..
@N.C. :
Yep, i know and already tried that out. However only 1 partition is recognized under windows!
so thats a problem:(
Thanks for the help everybody!