usbkeys with U3 and their removal?
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Fri Dec 7 00:46:23 UTC 2007
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.
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