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On 2015-08-03 20:01, 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.
>
Well. That didn't work when it was new. So i'm not sure it's going to 
work now.