Manage USB drives / removal with VMWare Workstation in Unity mode

We have a peice of legacy software that only runs on windows XP. Our deployment has it running on VMware Workstation in Unity mode. A constant issue is USB drives. The users need to connect USB drives to the legacy app.
The way i'ts currently managed: the drives are set to auto-mount into VMWare with the VID and PID of the drives. Then a DriveRemove.exe utility bat file is setup to eject the drives, and a shortcut is placed on the users desktop. Is there a better way to do this?
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Really disappointed in Apple after this!
I've had my iPhone 4S still on iOS5, and wanted to update to iOS6 today. I tried over the air, but it kept failing and suggesting that I try it with iTunes. My iPhone hasn't been connected to iTunes for months, so I first had to update, which makes updating already quite annoying as it doesn't work as intended.
After updating my iTunes, it found my iPhone and I hit Update. After some time it just stopped and failed on me, my iPhone went into recovery mode. After reconnecting to iTunes I get the message; "Your iPhone is in recovery mode, please recover" with a "OK" button. I hit that button and the Update/Restore screen disappears.
Luckily I found the log files in my User data folder and were able to figure out the error number, but for a normal user this would be a point they would give up! My next smartphone might not be an iPhone, the hardware and the experience is great on an iPhone. But updating/settings/app-management and iTunes just suck!

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I bought a Kingston DataTraveler 112 16GB thumb drive so I could copy the recovery image as a backup. It recognized the thumb drive and showed that the recovery image was a little over 11GB. But when it started to format the USB, it returned to the previous screen and no longer showed the drive there. At the bottom of the screen it said to contact HP Support but it didn't give me an error message. Now when I try the recovery manager it won't recognize the USB at all.
Prior to that I had purchased another 16GB USB--don't remember which brand. I have 5 other USB drives, but they're all smaller, except a 32GB Kingston DT101 G2 which does not work on this computer, although it worked on my previous computer (Pavilion w/Vista Home Premium) with no problem. All these USBs, including the new Kingston are for USB 2.0.
OS is Windows 8.1 64 bit on HP Pavilion 500-A60 desktop. I've tried the problem USB drives in all 4 ports (2.0 and 3.0). Also in the one I plug into a port to give me 3 USB ports, also used on my prior computer.
Is it possible that this computer doesn't recognize Kingston or certain other brands of USB thumb drives?
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The trick to this is to use a USB 2.0 port and to use a non-Windows 8 certified thumbdrive. If the USB flash drive shows as a "removable device" then there should be no issue in using the media to create recovery media
I have had great success with a Transcend USB 3.0 16-GB flash disk.
I own a couple of DataTraveler flash disks and had the same lack of success creating recovery media that you did. I have also had zero success with Sandisk Extreme usb 3.0 flash disks
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[SOLVED!] On USB drives, problems with non-English chars and HAL

Hello,
I am having a problem with non-English caracters (áãàçéẽê...) on files stored on my USB drive.
On Windows they're created with the correct name. But on Linux the files have the non-English characteres replaced by '?' and are not accessible.
If I manuallly mount the drives using 'mount -o iocharset=utf8 /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk' the characters are OK, so I think I just need to get HAL to pass the correct parameters to mount. However I don't know how to do that, and haven't found any good solution.
I tried to build a custom kernel setting the default charset as UTF-8 and it didn't work.
Any ideas? I'm using x86-64, HAL 0.5.13-3 and my locale is pt-BR.UTF-8.
Thanks!
EDIT: Actually, this is not a HAL problem, but a problem with 'exo'. For the solution, I edited /etc/xdg/xfce4/mount.rc and added iocharset=utf8 to the [vfat] category.
Last edited by Renan Birck (2009-11-28 20:54:23)

I don't use Thunar presently, but I looked in the Thunar Volume Manager doc and I didn't find anything to change the mount options of removable drives. I am not quite sure if it's possible or not. Maybe someone using it can tell for sure.
But if it is not possible to change the mount options, a possible solution is to disable the Thunar Volume Manager plugin and to use something else more configurable to manage the automount function.
Personally I use the halevt package from AUR which uses configuration files in the xml format.
It's not so easy to use but is highly configurable.
But there exists other tools also.
I can help you with halevt if you choose that way...

USB drive compatibility with Airport Routers. Help make database.

Please HELP.
Everyone who has a USB drive plugged into the airport directly and working, I want to assemble a database of those that work and those that fail.
And if you could not get it to work but it is ok on a powered USB hub please also give that info.
I see the question over and over about failure of the USB drive to work on a Time Capsule or Extreme (Express is not compatible).
The drive must be formatted correctly. FAT32 or Mac OS Extended (Journaled). (HFS+) are the only formats that work.. and really only the later is recommended.
Yet when people plug their drive into the airport, all correctly formatted it does not work.
There are obvious considerations..
1. Format and partition is correct.
2. Power consumption.. self powered drives may not get enough power.. actually I would not recommend using self-powered drives with any of the older version TC.. the power supply is underrated.. and even the AE power supply is far from excessive. The new version AC models have a far more powerful supply, so self powered drives should not be a problem.
3. USB chipset.. I think the problem is here. A USB drive can work fine on the Computer.. it has huge number of drivers available but the AE/TC has limited firmware space and limited number of drivers. So what I want is to find those that work and those that don't.
Info I would like.
1. Make and model.. as much info as required that a person could go out and buy that same one. ie versions maybe important.
2. Does it work directly on the AE/TC?.. yes or no.
3. Does it work via a powered hub? yes or no. Leave this blank if the answer to 2 is yes.
4. Can you please plug it into the Mac, open the system information and give me this info.
Touro Desk Pro:
Product ID:          0x1013
Vendor ID:          0x4971
Version:           0.00
Serial Number:          31001304180002200312
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          HGST
Location ID:          0xfa130000 / 5
Current Available (mA):          500
Current Required (mA):          8
Capacity:          1 TB (1,000,204,136,448 bytes)
Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk1
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
It will be more useful as a copy and paste.
But here is the screenshot. So you know where to find it.
5. Comments
You might want to tell us if it is terrible or slow.. or cheap and excellent.. recommend to others or stay away.
The last bit I want is to work out if any of the technical id stuff helps.
What is the USB chipset? You do not need to add the info.. I can search for it.. but when I google the Vendor ID: 0x4971 I discover this is JMicron.
If you are interested then please you can add it as well.
There is a lot of info around the web.. look for reliable source.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices
6. USB chipset. JMicron
Maybe we can track down the factors that are making it hard to pick devices that work and devices that don't.
At least have a list of drives known to work could be helpful.
There is a listing.. http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/8014.html It is way out of date.
That is the only one I know of.. but if people can point to others that is great.

These are connecting to a 3rd Gen 1TB Time Capsule.
1. Western Digital My Passport 0740
2. Yes
3. Yes
4.
Product ID:          0x0740
Vendor ID:          0x1058 (Western Digital Technologies, Inc.)
Version:          10.07
Serial Number:          575852314342315738313335
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Western Digital
Location ID:          0x26200000 / 3
Current Available (mA):          500
Current Required (mA):          500
Capacity:          1 TB (1,000,170,586,112 bytes)
Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk5
Partition Map Type:          MBR (Master Boot Record)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
5. Purchased in 2012.
1. Sony Vaio (roughly from 2007-8)
2. Yes
3. Yes
4.
Product ID:          0x6390
Vendor ID:          0x058f (Alcor Micro, Corp.)
Version:           1.00
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Generic
Location ID:          0x24100000 / 3
Current Available (mA):          500
Current Required (mA):          100
Capacity:          160.04 GB (160,041,885,696 bytes)
Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk4
Partition Map Type:          APM (Apple Partition Map)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
5. Purchased in 2008
1. Seagate Backup Plus for Mac SRD0SP0 1TB
2. Yes
3. Yes
4.
Product ID:          0xa013
Vendor ID:          0x0bc2 (Seagate LLC)
Version:           1.00
Serial Number:          NA5P3KTA
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Seagate
Location ID:          0x26200000 / 3
Current Available (mA):          500
Current Required (mA):          100
Capacity:          1 TB (1,000,204,885,504 bytes)
Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk5
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
5. Purchased in 2013.
1. Drobo 5D
2. No.
3. No, not even on a Belkin Powered USB hub.
4.
Product ID:          0x3455
Vendor ID:          0x19b9
Version:           0.00
Serial Number:          D0B135101700078
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Drobo
Location ID:          0x24100000 / 3
Current Available (mA):          500
Current Required (mA):          2
Capacity:          17.59 TB (17,592,186,044,416 bytes)
Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk4
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
5. It was working at once stage when plugged directly into the TC, but stopped.
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Which Intel Management Engine driver goes with Me Update ME8.1.50.1456 bios

I got Motherboard Z77A-G43
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Release Date   2013-11-01   Version   2.12
File Size   5.46 MB   File   Download
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Ok Thanks
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Last edited by el_ave (2007-03-20 21:14:51)

You have clearly not done very much research on this subject. Did you know that with hal and dbus daemons, kde will automount for you? And for that to happen, there should _not_ be an entry about that device in fstab, unless it is clearly specified as "noauto". You need also be a member of the correct groups to do this.
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I have a 1TB Maxell HDD USB that always worked fine with my MacBook Pro running currently iOS 10.9.5 (Mavericks) and I just bought a new iMac running iOS 10.10.1 (Yosemite). When I connect the USB drive to the iMac with Yosemite it won't even show up in the Disk Utility, regardless what format I choose when re-formatting it on my older Mavericks MacBook.
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2) Is there a decent USB drive on the market with encryption software compatible with both Mac and Windows machines?
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Good day Apple friends,
Since I installed Maverick I have numerous issues with my Macbook Pro-Retina mid 2012.
When I connect my usual USB drives they don't react the first time. I always have to deconnect and immediately reconnect to make it work.
It is not a question of delay, it is a question of 1st or 2nd time. I basically go: connect, disconnect, reconnect and voilà!
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
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Hi!
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Thanks!!!

Have you emptied the trash?

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Tim

Hi,
I would check their USB Ports to see if they are working (try another port or another device in that same port)
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