USB flash write protect

[Jason Shein]

On April 9, 2005 07:18 pm, William Park wrote:

> Then, nuke the fucking thing...
>
>     cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda
>     mkdosfs -I /dev/sda
>     mount /dev/sda /mnt/hd
>
> Note: use the whole device /dev/sda, rather than one of its partition.

# cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda
cat: write error: Input/output error

Stubborn little thing.

I think that these units are for decorative purposes only now.


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