mounting fake cd-roms that are on usb sticks

[Peter F. Patel-Schneider]

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My initial guess was indeed that this was a U3 disk (or something similar).
 However, that does not appear to be the case, as can be seen from the
kernel messages.  The disk has two partitions - a normal one (5:0:0:1) that
is mounted fine and one (5:0:0:0) that claims to be a CD-ROM and does not
show up on the desktop.  This CD-ROM partition does result in the creation
of /dev/sr0 which can then be mounted manually.

My guess is that there is no way to signal that a CD is present in /dev/sr0
so there is nothing to trigger putting a icon on the desktop, but this is
only a guess.

peter


On 10/21/2015 03:06 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:01:56AM -0700, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> wrote:
>> I have USB stick that presents as both a CD-ROM drive and a regular
>> drive. (Why?  I guess so that the CD-ROM part cannot be modified.)
> 
> Is this a "U3" drive, by any chance? There, the CD-ROM part contains 
> drivers/installers for the functionality on the HDD part. The idea was 
> that the host OS (the designers only thought to target Windows) would see
> the CD-ROM and an "empty" hard drive, install a launcher application from
> the CD-ROM and that installer would provide access to apps on the disk.
> 
> You can modify a U3 disk (change the CD-image, remove the CD part and so
>  on) with U3-tool: http://u3-tool.sourceforge.net/
> 
>> 
>> The regular drive is detected, shows up on the desktop, and is mounted
>> fine. However, the CD-ROM part does not even show up on the desktop and
>> the only way I can figure out to mount it is `sudo mount /dev/sr0
>> /mnt`.
>> 
>> I would like to have this drive to at least show up on the desktop,
>> and preferably be automounted.  Does anyone know how to do this?
>> 
>> peter
>> 
>> PS:  Here is an edited system log of what happens when the stick is
>> plugged in.
>> 
>> kernel: usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 20 using xhci_hcd 
>> kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6387 
>> kernel: usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
>> SerialNumber=3 kernel: usb 1-1: Product: Mass Storage kernel: usb 1-1:
>> Manufacturer: Generic kernel: usb 1-1: SerialNumber: B763F0E4 kernel:
>> usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected kernel: scsi
>> host5: usb-storage 1-1:1.0 mtp-probe[3142]: checking bus 1, device 20: 
>> "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1" mtp-probe[3142]: bus:
>> 1, device: 20 was not an MTP device kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: CD-ROM
>> Generic  Autorun Disk     8.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 kernel: scsi 5:0:0:1:
>> Direct-Access     Generic  Flash Disk       8.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 kernel:
>> sr 5:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 tray kernel:
>> sr 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 kernel: sr 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi
>> generic sg2 type 5 kernel: sd 5:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type
>> 0 kernel: sd 5:0:0:1: [sdc] 3639996 512-byte logical blocks: (1.86
>> GB/1.73 GiB) kernel: sd 5:0:0:1: [sdc] Write Protect is off kernel: sd
>> 5:0:0:1: [sdc] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 kernel: sd 5:0:0:1: [sdc] Write
>> cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA 
>> kernel:  sdc: sdc1 kernel: sd 5:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable
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