On Wednesday 23 April 2008 15:58, Todd Denniston wrote: > > Is it a SanDisk??? I ask because they have some weird junk on their sticks > that you need to use MS to remove and it alternately looks like a partition > or a second disk when you plug it in. > > DON'T delete the partitions until after removing the tool! > No, it's a DaneElec > "Can I remove U3 technology from my USB drive?" > http://www.sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1450#Q13 > or "U3 Launchpad Removal Tool" > http://www.sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1415 > > As for just reformatting the partition that is there I would suggest three > things: 1) read `man mkdosfs` > 2) consider just doing a raw RW badblocks run against the device... How do you do that? > if it > comes up with a lot, you may want to just "<plonk>" the thing in the > circular file. (after hitting it with a hammer a few times. :) It might come to that :-) > 3) because you have IO problems and a big disk > mkdosfs -c -F 32 -v /dev/devicepartition > For this one I'd rather have an ext3 partition, if I can't recover it. Anne -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
