[nmglug] ativa flash drive with u3 and iso9660 partition.. arrgg

[Sam Noble]

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 14:42 -0600, Jason Schaefer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I bought a cheap 1 gb ativa flash drive a few weeks ago. It has this u3 
> software installed into a read only cdrom iso9660 partition. It is 
> really annoying to have it automount this cdrom partition everytime. I 
> imagine its even more annoying in MS Windows, as it actually installs 
> itself on the system without even asking. My question is, how can I 
> completely obliterate everything on this drive and re-partition? I can't 
> use fdisk as its detected as a cdrom.
> 
> /dev/sda1 - fat16, 1gb partition
> /dev/scd0 - iso9660 cdrom 3.8mb partition

Does scd0 have a mbr? could it be wiped with:

#dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/scd0

Or leave out the bs and count arguments to write zeros to the whole
thing? I think even if it didn't work it would at least break it, and
then you wouldn't have the thing automounting all the time.