On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:54:59PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
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> "L. V. Lammert" <lvl@omnitec.net> writes:
> 
> > Watch out for USB sticks!! Many now are coming with 'U3' - a piece of
> > crap piece of s/w that will try to crash your machine whenever you
> > insert it.
> 
> oh, so that's what happened when I put my new 4GB USB stick into a
> Windows machine.  On OpenBSD, it just mounted like regular (but
> looking at messages right now it actually shows up as an emulated CD
> plus the regular drive), while on Windows it went through several
> minutes of things 'just happening' and requiring a reboot.  
> 
> > Here's a link to the removal page from U3:
> >
> >         http://www.u3.com/uninstall/
> 
> ah, thanks for the link.  
> 

Is it possible to remove it with fdisk/disklabel/newfs_msdos, or is it
more insidious than that?

-- Mark