SanDisk Cruzer micro 8Gb and Ubuntu, GNU/Linux

[Shachar Shemesh]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:14:02PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>
>> At least on my SanDisk Cruzer, that was relatively harmless on Linux. 
>> On Windows, these lines suggest that any time you put the drive in it 
>> launches the horrible U3 system and starts messing with your files. 
>> Fortunately, there is a solution. You can download the U3 removal 
>> tool from the sandisk web site and run it (Windows only, I'm afraid, 
>> but I managed to get it to work from Virtual box by connecting the 
>> DOK directly to the windows machine). Once removed, Linux starts 
>> treating the device as a normal Disk on Key as well. Much recommended.
>
> Can you just mount the raw device and reformat it?
>
No, they did some fairly horrible tricks to make the thing appear as two 
devices - a disk on key and a CD rom containing the U3 software. Like I 
said, the problems we're having in Linux are nothing in comparison to 
the problems these disks cause on Windows, where they are supposed to run.

Shachar