Neil Bothwick ha escrito:
Well, if I got an answer, maybe I wasn't asking the wrong person, as the
OP didn't reply when I first asked it :)
hello list, i'm the OP. i'm sorry i didn't answer before, but i'm away
from home with extremely limited internet access. a big thank you to
all who r
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:42:45 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > But it's not, not once you eject the virtual CD. Is it really worth
> > bricking your hardware and invalidating the warranty to get rid of
> > something that disappears after a couple of microseconds anyway?
>
> sorry, you're asking t
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 09:49 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> But it's not, not once you eject the virtual CD. Is it really worth
> bricking your hardware and invalidating the warranty to get rid of
> something that disappears after a couple of microseconds anyway?
sorry, you're asking the wrong guy
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:24:52 +, Stroller wrote:
> It should be mentioned that these virtual CDs can be immensely useful
> if your operating system doesn't ship with drivers for the unit -
> think home users of Windows.
>
> The virtual drive appears as a standard CD drive, supported by all
On 26 Jan 2010, at 20:54, Paul Hartman wrote:
...
I don't think it is possible to remove it. Disks with this kind of
"helpful" stuff are annoying because of violating corporate policies,
being seen as non-hdd by some devices that accept external hard drives
(like a dvr, media center etc).
It s
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:49:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > 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.
>
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 01:25 +, 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 over
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
I had this problem with a SanDisk usb drive.
Its been years since I did this but If my memory serves me correct I had
to go to the SanDisk website and download a program for windows to
remove the problem.
I don't know if there is a linux alternative to something like this but
I know how annoying i
on 2010-01-26 at 20:26 Neil Bothwick 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?
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:56:12 -0200, luis jure wrote:
> >ATTRS{idVendor}=="1410", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5010",
> >ACTION=="add",RUN+="/usr/bin/eject %k"
> >
> >was the line I used to prevent one such modem showing up as a CD.
>
> thanks for your answer, but i take it that this only hides the
> part
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:19 AM, luis jure wrote:
>
> hello list,
>
> i purchased recently an external usb disk (HP SimpleSave, 1.5 TB).
>
> i re-formatted it with an ext4 file system, but i can't get rid of the
> "virtual cd" created by the manufacturer with some backup software.
I don't think i
on 2010-01-26 at 14:28 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>ATTRS{idVendor}=="1410", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5010",
>ACTION=="add",RUN+="/usr/bin/eject %k"
>
>was the line I used to prevent one such modem showing up as a CD.
thanks for your answer, but i take it that this only hides the
partition? any ideas how i c
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:19:36 -0200, luis jure wrote:
> when i connect the disc, the system sees two devices: a hard disc (for
> example /dev/sdb, that i can format with the usual tools) and a virtual
> cd-rom (sr1 or sg1), that i'd like to erase but i don't know how to
> manipulate.
If this work
hello list,
i purchased recently an external usb disk (HP SimpleSave, 1.5 TB).
i re-formatted it with an ext4 file system, but i can't get rid of the
"virtual cd" created by the manufacturer with some backup software.
when i connect the disc, the system sees two devices: a hard disc (for
exampl
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