[NTLUG:Discuss] erasing ISO image from memory stick

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:47:50PM -0500, Ed Leach wrote:
> Dennis Kaptain wrote:
> > 
> > ----- Mensaje original ----
> > De: Ed Leach <ntlug at levelofdetail.com>
> > Para: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
> > Enviado: miércoles, 16 de abril, 2008 10:24:23
> > Asunto: [NTLUG:Discuss] erasing ISO image from memory stick
> > 
> > I have an Ativa memory stick. When I plug it into the USB port it mounts 
> > a free memory partition to /dev/sdb1. But it also mounts an ISO9660 
> > image to /dev/scd0.

FWIW, I once had an early USB flash disk that that had an ISO9660
image stored in ROM, as opposed to having the image in the flash memory 
itself.  Thus there was no way that I could find to remove the ISO9660
image or "free" the space on the device.

Your device might be similar.

I ended up taking the device back to the store and getting a
different one, as continually mounting the ISO9660 image was
truly annoying (and I don't like hardware devices forcing their
idea of software on me).

Pm