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Visitor II
October 7, 2020
Question

ST-LINK on Nucleo boards WITHOUT connecting an USB memory device - PLEASE

  • October 7, 2020
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Dear ST team,

PLEASE, could you provide a firmware for Nucleo ST-LINK chip on MCU boards which does NOT setup a (read-only) USB memory device?!

All the time when we connect a MCU board via USB to a host PC, this ARM mbed USB drive pops-up (and will be installed as an USB memory device) on host PCs.

Due to our company IT policies - USB memory devices are prohibited and any connection of such USB devices - such as all Nucleo boards with ST-LINK bridge - results in IT alerts to users.

PLEASE, remove this USB memory device from the ST-LINK (firmware). Thank you. Otherwise, we cannot use anymore any of your ST MCU boards.

Sincerely yours

Torsten Jaekel

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    Graduate II
    October 7, 2020

    Hi Torsten, saw someone ask something similar within last 3-4 weeks, not sure it got a response or not.

    Not clear if they use the MSC only for the mBed download functionality, or as a means to IOCTL on the ST-LINK side.

    @Imen DAHMEN​ @Amel NASRI​ @Nawres GHARBI​ 

    Explorer II
    October 8, 2020
    Visitor II
    October 8, 2020

    Thank you,

    pretty helpful.

    So latest ST-Link firmware, STSW-LINK007 - but: it works only for ST-Link V2, not for ST-Link V3. Firmware for V3 does not have this 'type' option.

    So, for a NUCLEO-H743ZI (old one, with V2) I can do firmware without USB storage, but for NUCLEO0H743ZI2 (newer board, with V3) - not possible (missing this option).

    So, not really consistent and issue still open.

    Visitor II
    October 8, 2020

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    NUCLEO-H743ZI (old, V2)

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    NUCLEO-H743ZI2 (new, V3)

    ==> Please, is there a ST-Link FW Update for version V3 with the same option to disable the USB storage device?

    Visitor II
    October 8, 2020

    BTW: same issue and request: https://community.st.com/s/question/0D53W00000HNR0l/stlink-v3-without-mass-storage-enabled

    For ST-Link V3 it does not seem to be supported and provided before 2021.

    Ok, so we had to stop using the latest NUCLEO-H743ZI2 boards (or all boards with ST-Link V3 chip on it).