From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 3 18:51:01 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A4579B2FCF for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 18:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x22c.google.com (mail-io0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14B951B82 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 18:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: by ioeg141 with SMTP id g141so154172945ioe.3 for ; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 11:51:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nmF4ZvE9+1lDU5t4zlUgl9KTT6qwArPGDWQSGXkFhpo=; b=JSlfWvUcexS7+XtSo+ayjKkgm6yCnuD7vx5qiOkAejC6kwKpKMhHY3XWFpSzTfCfC1 0XgADFTKBr8rytG88EYuLoEPBl8XIyIH9+jGbR/PJ2JQjMqfg9wn8N2TGei3dYP9/5CX LHX6MOFe/RvYWhn7ZdZ7uc50UUVJwQjEkruTOGwqf39zmSj4JyJaQDtLpAeGoVKR8Ow0 MP/6MADQcenCvY1CrfMhjdX6BHgZ6yCqNcpJ0u6EugbE/SsNIDK1SES3CgtPR1ptDZIT mB45y9RwWg5g29g6zYJ34ju0zu0fDnD1zySV+3+ZfJBEE6Tw6henRJHi392+rnTH4ybl GQiQ== X-Received: by 10.107.132.15 with SMTP id g15mr21503825iod.134.1438627860595; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 11:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([50.243.6.59]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id bd7sm6301747igb.19.2015.08.03.11.50.59 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 03 Aug 2015 11:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55BFB81D.7040004@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:51:09 -0600 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it. References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> <55BFAC5D.5070309@sneakertech.com> <25777.128.135.52.4.1438625477.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <25777.128.135.52.4.1438625477.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:51:01 -0000 On 08/03/2015 12:11 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > 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 > I had a square flash drive for cameras which indeed did have such a switch. But I do not recall seeing one on usb sticks or thumb drives. Perhaps those were before my time :)