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