Re: usbkeys with U3 and their removal?

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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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