unetbootin does not detect usb drive

Bug #1468181 reported by ill
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Bug Description

when using unetbootin, it does not detect any usb devices

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Philip Brown (philbrown-f) wrote :

Unetbootin for Linux does not recognize certain USB drives formatted FAT32. The same drives are recognized by Unetbootin for Windows:

Unetbootin for Linux version 6.08
Unetbootin for Windows version 6.08
openSUSE 13.2

USB formatting instructions:
  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/${flsh} bs=1024 count=1024

  echo "d
d
d
n
p
1

a
t
c
w
" | fdisk /dev/${flsh}
  wait
  mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/${flsh}1

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