[Cialug] Modifying a read-only flash drive

[Matt Breitbach]

Oh, I've already got a handful of other flash drives (16GB, 4GB, 2GB, and
1GB) but I figured if I could make this one work without the vendor garbage
on it that'd be great.  It's still fully functional other than the 4MB
partition that is read only and full of garbage.  The other partition is
fully read/write.

I guess it's more of a challenge to get it working than a necessity.


-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Todd Walton
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 2:59 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Modifying a read-only flash drive

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Matt Breitbach
<matthewb at flash.shanje.com> wrote:
> I'd like to remove that partition and merge it into the main system, or
just
> fry it completely.  It's currently read-only, and I can't seem to find a
way
> to disable it.  There's no external switch, and upon dis-assembly there
> doesn't seem to be anything on the circuit board that would indicate a
> read-only switch.

If it comes to it, Best Buy has 2GB drives for $10.  Just sayin'.

--
Todd
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