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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 13:11:17 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it.
From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
To: "Quartz" <quartz@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
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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University of Chicago
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