Re: U3 and other firmware USB thumbdrives
On Tue 28 July 2009 02:22:46 pm Karl Schmidt wrote:
> Last time I messed with this, there was only U3 - it appears that there are
> a bunch of different systems now. There was a U3 removal tool at that time
> - what is the situation today? Is there a particular brand that just
> provides storage and non of this garbage?
>
> I need to find a 32GB USB drive that I can dd copy with - without having
> troubles with some embedded firmware..
Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never worried about this. I just plug
it in and then run mkfs or cfdisk and mkfs, and problem solved.
Cheers!
cmr
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