[SoaS] [support-gang] [IAEP] Reformat USB stick, How?

[James Cameron]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:36:59PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Disk Utility--->(choose the usb stick)---->Erase
> VolumeFormat: MS-DOS(fat)
> Name:UNTITLED
> Security Options: (pick one!.. I used zero out)

The "Don't Erase Data" should be sufficient, and will reduce the
endurance impact on the USB stick.  Please try it next time, 'cause I'm
fairly sure it will prepare the USB stick properly for SoaS.

> Erase---->Erase
> 
> This took 6 minutes to erase.

It took two seconds for me to erase on Disk Utility just then, with a
2GB USB stick, on Mac OS X 10.6.3.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/