Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 13:11:17 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Quartz" <quartz@sneakertech.com> Cc: "Bernt Hansson" <bah@bananmonarki.se>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it. Message-ID: <25777.128.135.52.4.1438625477.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <55BFAC5D.5070309@sneakertech.com> References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> <55BFAC5D.5070309@sneakertech.com>
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On Mon, August 3, 2015 1:01 pm, Quartz wrote: > Can you do a quick sanity check and see if the stick can be wiped on a > different machine? Or perhaps the same machine by booting off a live > linux cd. Being on old flash drive there's a possibility it's just up > and died due to wear and the problem isn't due to FreeBSD at all. > Similar thought: Some of older flash drives had mechanical "write protection" switch... Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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