Comment 7 for bug 474790

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In , Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

The SmartWare Virtual CD partition on these drives is useless in Linux. It includes Windows/Mac utilities only, and is not usable space. This portion of the drive should probably be ignored on Linux desktops.

P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/host14/target14:0:0/14:0:0:1/block/sr1
N: sr1
S: block/11:1
S: scd1
S: disk/by-id/usb-WD_Virtual_CD_070A_575839304137395737383234-0:1
S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:1
S: disk/by-label/WD\x20SmartWare
S: cdrom3
E: UDEV_LOG=3
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/host14/target14:0:0/14:0:0:1/block/sr1
E: MAJOR=11
E: MINOR=1
E: DEVNAME=/dev/sr1
E: DEVTYPE=disk
E: SUBSYSTEM=block
E: ID_CDROM=1
E: ID_CDROM_MRW=1
E: ID_CDROM_MRW_W=1
E: ID_CDROM_MEDIA=1
E: ID_VENDOR=WD
E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=WD\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20
E: ID_VENDOR_ID=1058
E: ID_MODEL=Virtual_CD_070A
E: ID_MODEL_ENC=Virtual\x20CD\x20070A\x20
E: ID_MODEL_ID=070a
E: ID_REVISION=1028
E: ID_SERIAL=WD_Virtual_CD_070A_575839304137395737383234-0:1
E: ID_SERIAL_SHORT=575839304137395737383234
E: ID_TYPE=cd
E: ID_INSTANCE=0:1
E: ID_BUS=usb
E: ID_USB_INTERFACES=:080650:
E: ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM=00
E: ID_USB_DRIVER=usb-storage
E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:1
E: ID_FS_LABEL=WD_SmartWare
E: ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=WD\x20SmartWare
E: ID_FS_TYPE=udf
E: ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
E: ACL_MANAGE=1
E: GENERATED=1
E: DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE=0
E: DKD_MEDIA_AVAILABLE=1
E: DKD_PARTITION_TABLE=1
E: DKD_PARTITION_TABLE_SCHEME=apm
E: DKD_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY=0
E: DEVLINKS=/dev/block/11:1 /dev/scd1 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_Virtual_CD_070A_575839304137395737383234-0:1 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:1 /dev/disk/by-label/WD\x20SmartWare /dev/cdrom3v/sr1":