John Wendel wrote:
Rick Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 15:38 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
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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.
Sorry 'bout the lazy "dd" command.
Yes, it would seem that it should work, but people are reporting that
they had to get a "Windows using friend" to fix the thing. I don't have
such a device, but I may in the future (and I don't do Windows), so I
was curious.
Thanks!
John
I tried that on one of my SanDisk Cruzer the other night. I tried
different versions of dd, even to the point of over writing the whole
drive using dd.
From what I could find, the partition that is uses is a read-only
partition and is hardware controlled. Some code in the removal software
must turn this on/off. I know that the windows software writes directly
to the video driver and won't work with dual display monitors.
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Robin Laing
