Re: Help with USB driver



Hi Pavel
thanks a lot for your reply..
I am still looking for specific windows API's or example code that can
identify the various partitions on the USB and the disk letters associated
with each partition
Also I dont want to use the vendor configuration utility and use only
windows APIs to change the read-only partition to be read-writable.. I want
this functionality to be independent of the vendor. The usb i have is a
general purpose mass storage device..

thanks
Sameer

"Pavel A." wrote:

sam wrote:
Hi

I am a C/C++ programmer and am trying to do windows driver development for
the first time
What I am trying to achieve is the following..
I have a USB mass storage device with two partions on it (one read
only and other read-write).. I want to write a C++ (or C) utility that
can run in user mode and provide me the following information

The drive letters assigned to the two partitions of the USB

A lot of information on this can be found here:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbstick_e.html

Some sort of functionality to change the read-only partition to read-
write and vice versa. ( Not sure if it is do-able in user-mode..)

For this, you need a configuration utility from the device manufacturer.


Regards,
--pa

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