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how to remove write protection and how to format that pendrive

Asked by sreenivas

Hi all,
         i have sand disk pendrive.when i am formating the pendrive using gparted it is not formated.
when inserting pendrive the output of dmesg is

jaga@jaga-virtual-machine:~$ dmesg | tail
[ 149.682817] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 149.682861] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 150.690589] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Cruzer Blade 1.26 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 150.701408] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 150.705487] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 31266816 512-byte logical blocks: (16.0 GB/14.9 GiB)
[ 150.711892] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on
[ 150.711911] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 80 00
[ 150.745064] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 150.777760] sdb: sdb1
[ 150.800249] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

it shows that write protection is on.how to remove that in ubuntu 12.04.
please help me?

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Tobin Davis (gruemaster) said : 		#1

This is outside of the scope of this utility. I would suggest looking at Sandisk's forums for help, or google search. Sandisk should have a utility to lock/unlock their pen drives.