USB drives

[green_man]

Is there any way in Linux to find out who manufactured a device ?
I have a USB flash drive that works perfrectly with any one of the 
several Knoppix/Debian based live Cds using the 2.4x kernels.
I plug it in and it shows up in emelFM as sda1, and I can mount it, read 
and write to it. Truly plug and play.
However in Win 98SE, device manager wants a driver for it, but doesn't 
have one.
The vendors advice is go to the manufacturer's web site and download the 
driver, but I have no idea who made the thing.
All it says on the outside is "Flash Drive USB 2.0 128MB"
It must be stored somewhere in the device, somehow, so that windows 
knows what driver to look for.

Also, since I am completely ignorant of how these things work, can they 
be re-partitioned ?
Could I take a 256 MB flash drive and split it into sda1 and sda2 of 128 
MB each, or is the format permanently set ?

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Scott
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