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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
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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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