flash disk problems(not write-able, not mkfs-able)

leguaan

Hello,
I have a 128MB flash disk, and at one point, it stopped working.
I can still read the data from it (on both windows and gentoo)
But can´t write on it, or delete the data (stuff that I´d really like to get rid of)
On Windows, it says that I can´t write the data.
On Gentoo, both writing the data and mkfs-ing the disk works fine,
but as soon as I unmount and mount the /dev/sda1 again,
the data is back!!!
Can somebody help me, how I could rewrite everything in some brutal way?
Get rid of the content, and start using the key again???
thx
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kfiaciarka · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject:

Maybe there is a switch which protects data

leguaan · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:29 pm Post subject:

nope... no switch ist´solid with aluminium with nothing to move...
i managed changing the filesystem under linux,
was playing around with fstab now, and found out, that I can create partitions just from the 2nd cylinder on...
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Since he could no longer be of any use to me,I left him there on the stones without much regret and whistled down a few vultures which settled down on him in order to guard him. (Kafka)