Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 21:34:11 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger 
wrote:
> Am Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 08:21:08PM +0000 schrieb Michael:

> > Some 'smart' TVs won't use a USB drive unless and until they've formatted
> > it first.  I've attached a 3" drive in a USB 3.0 docking station and it
> > worked fine *after* it was formatted.  Then it wouldn't unmount it, even
> > after I had shutdown the TV.  I can't recall what fs format it had used.
> 
> As I mentioned, I have a Sony TV. Sony is not known to be customer-friendly
> with regards to openness and Digital Restrictions Management. But since it’s
> GoogleTV, it eats sticks and HDDs alike. I actually have a USB 2 extension
> cord dangling from the back to the front.
> 
> I don’t even have to format it with the TV. It will only add all the
> Android-typical directories when I stick in a drive for the first time. The
> only case when I would need to format a drive: if I want to use it to record
> TV onto it. Because then the recording is DRM-entangled to only be
> watchable on that TV.

Yes, this ^^^^.

I had forgotten the formatting was related to also adding encryption to 
protect DRM content.

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