Karmic: how to delete /dev/sr1

[Alan Dacey Sr.]

On Sunday 07 March 2010 06:03:37 am Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Saturday 06 Mar 2010 20:04:20 Alan Dacey Sr. wrote:
> > On Saturday 06 March 2010 01:58:09 pm Mirto Silvio Busico wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I have an external USB hard disk from Western Digital (model My
> > > Passport).
> > > 
> > > This unit comes with two partitions, that I see and I can mount:
> > >     * /dev/sr1 that is understood as a CD
> > >     * /dev/sdb1 that is a normal NTFS partition
> > > 
> > > If I mount the partitions "mount" says:
> > > 
> > > ...
> > > /dev/sr1 on /media/WD SmartWare type udf
> > > (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000)
> > > /dev/sdb1 on /media/My Passport type fuseblk
> > > (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
> > > 
> > > The problem is tah I'm not able to destroy, eliminate, kill :-) the
> > > /dev/sr1 partition
> > > 
> > > With the partitions unmounted, nor "gparted" nor "fdisk" see the damned
> > > partition
> > > 
> > > Trying "sudo fdisk /dev/sr1" I see:
> > > 
> > > mirto at msb02:~/script$ sudo fdisk /dev/sr1
> > > Impossibile scrivere la tabella delle partizioni.
> > > Nota: la dimensione del settore è 2048 (non 512)
> > > Il dispositivo non contiene né una tabella delle partizioni DOS valida,
> > > né una disklabel Sun, SGI od OSF
> > > Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x0c58531d.
> > > Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
> > > After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.
> > > 
> > > Attenzione: il flag 0x0000 non valido della tabella delle partizioni 4
> > > verrà corretto con w(rite)
> > > 
> > > Comando (m per richiamare la guida): p
> > > 
> > > Disco /dev/sr1: 700 MB, 700448768 byte
> > > 255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, 21 cilindri
> > > Unità = cilindri di 16065 * 2048 = 32901120 byte
> > > Identificativo disco: 0x0c58531d
> > > 
> > > Dispositivo Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > > 
> > > Comando (m per richiamare la guida):
> > > 
> > > 
> > > How can I kill this partition?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > >     Mirto
> > > 
> > > P.S. BTW I use Karmic 64 bit with updates of 4 March
> > 
> > This is an odd day.  I was about to ask the very same thing.  I saved
> > this
> > 
> >  as a draft to send after I tried one last thing:
> >   I got a free usb stick that has a read-only, write-protected partition
> >  
> >  that mounts as a cd.  I find this very annoying and have been trying to
> >  get rid of it for months.  I either am phrasing my google searches wrong
> >  or am using the wrong words.  Whatever I find is all about actual cd
> >  drives and not about a usb stick.  I can play with the ownership and
> >  such but I can't find a way to get to get it to mount it as something
> >  like /dev/sdh1.  It always mounts as /dev/sr1  It is always
> >  non-writable so I can't kill the partition.
> >  
> >   U3 tools do not work.
> >   Does anybody know where to find out how to do this?
> 
> I had exactly the same thing on Friday, a SanDisk USB stick with the U3
> software on it. Tried installing u3_tool but couldn't seem to get them
> working. After a bit of searching I found a post that said install the
> version of u3-tool that comes with 10.04 and can be downloaded from
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/u3-tool.
> Then do
> sudo u3-tool -p 0 /dev/sd*
> where * is the letter of the device you're trying to fix.

Sweet! Someone scratched the itch to get this on linux.  I'll give that a try 
on my stick.

-- 
Alan

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