Hello all, I read the autoyast profiles for installation from an USB flash drive. This worked so far with many different drives, but now i have a problem with a 8GB drive (Imation Nano Pro, with password protection). The first time, yast can successfully read the profile and starts the installation. The second time, after abort, the same drive cannot be accessed anymore. I made 2 test with 2 different computers: One drive has now invalid vendor, product name, etc, the second one seems to have valid metadata. But both fail to report anything by sfdisk or fdisk. I tried both types of URL: usb:///... and device://sdb1/... Has anyone an idea what yast (or another part of installation process) is doing, that could mess up the firmware? Maybe a USB/SCSI command, that is unusual to a USB drive? Best Regards, Oliver This are the kernel messages when plugging in a working drive: usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 4-2: new device found, idVendor=0718, idProduct=043b usb 4-2: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 4-2: Product: Nano Pro usb 4-2: Manufacturer: Imation usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 078C171929B4 usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 6 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Imation Nano Pro PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 15646720 512-byte hardware sectors (8011 MB) sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 15646720 512-byte hardware sectors (8011 MB) sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete and this are the ones of the same drive after installation: usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10 usb 4-2: new device found, idVendor=0718, idProduct=043b usb 4-2: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 4-2: Product: Nano Pro usb 4-2: Manufacturer: Imation usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 078C171929B4 usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi12 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 10 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 12:0:0:0: Direct-Access Imation Nano Pro PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS sd 12:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk sd 12:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete This is the output of the broken drive with the screwed up metadata. It is the same product as the other one! usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11 usb 4-2: new device found, idVendor=13fe, idProduct=1d00 usb 4-2: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 4-2: Product: USB DISK 30X usb 4-2: Manufacturer: usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi13 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 11 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 13:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB DISK 30X 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk sd 13:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete -- Oliver Schweikert Software Development HORIBA Europe Automation Division GmbH Zabergäustr. 3 73765 Neuhausen (Germany) Tel: +49 7158-933-413 Fax: +49 7158-933-613 Email: oliver.schweikert@horiba.com Geschäftsführer: Thomas E. Ehmann, Yuichi Muroga, Takashi Nagano Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 213200 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org