On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 01:25 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:29:53 -0200, luis jure wrote: > > > >> any ideas how i can effectively delete it? > > > > > >You can't if it is in the drive's firmware. > > > > i see. if i understand correctly, i'd need a specific tool to overwrite > > the firmware. is that correct? > > Why would you want to do that? The virtual CD is not taking up any space > on the disk
oRly? Toshiba used to sell USB keys that came built in with a cd (or hd?) partition that you couldn't get rid of but it took up space. They provided a windows utility that could erase it, and give the space back to the primary partition. Don't know about the SimpleSave though. > and it is no longer visible on your system once you eject it. > Why would you want to risk turning the drive into a brick to get rid of > it when it's not really there anyway? Because it's annoying? Because it's wrong? Because it's there? You could possibly turn off SCSI CDROM support in your kernel: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=n if you don't use it for anything else. Or you could stop the module sr_mod from loading automatically. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> On a clear disk you can seek forever.
