USB Key Perplexivities

[Brian Mury]

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 14:36 +1000, James McDonald wrote:
> I have just purchased a 1GB USB key.
> 
> When it's plugged into a laptop running Ubuntu it automounts 2 partitions
> 
> /dev/scd0 on /media/cdrecorder
> /dev/sda1 on /media/TOSHIBA
> 
> what I don't understand is one partition is discovered as a cd style 
> device and the other as a hard disk?

I have seen some USB keys that have a separate small partition that
auto-installs software when they are plugged in (at least on a Windows
computer, anyway). I would guess that the CD partition is intended to
serve that purpose. Is there anything in /media/cdrecorder?