On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 15:38 -0800, John Wendel wrote: > Robin Laing wrote: > > [snip] > > > If you have comments or concerns, this is a link to the discussion > > forums on U3. > > http://u3community.com/ > > > > In the "Wishlist", the request has been made for Linux support. > > > > > Just so I can understand what's going on here ... > > Does "dd /dev/zero /dev/sdx" to the unmounted usb key followed by > repartitioning / formatting work to remove this crap? It would have to be "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=512 count=1" and I don't know if it'd work or not. Unless there's some hardware flag on the drive that turns the U3 portion into a read-only physical device it should work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - If this is the first day of the rest of my life... - - I'm in BIG trouble! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
