>> There's probably Windows backup software on it; and who knows what else.
> Helpful post from Tom, I've done similar but only on Sandisk products. I > thought U3 was only a Sandisk thing but now WD is using it too? > Some of the Windows software Tom H mentioned and shown here makes me > skeptical at best. I just get rid of U3 by default now. Welcome. Sandisk may have been the first but all flash drive sellers seem to have U3 options. I could not understand how WD managed to turn an HD partition into an ro disk but Stan H seems to have found the answer (although it is not, AFAICT, on the pdf that he posted): it is a separate flash drive. That also clarifies two methods to deal with U3 that I found through Google last night and that I did not post because they did not make sense. 1) ./u3-tool -vp0 /dev/sdb1 which zeroes the u3 partition and prevents it from auto-mounting 2) echo "1" /sys/block/sr0/device/delete which (theoretically) does the same thing without having to install any package I am still curious whether the flash drive can be turned into a usable rw partition... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/6d4219cc1003260936n30fe12f6ge77554f3ef6da...@mail.gmail.com
