Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 12:43:41 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> Cc: "freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it. Message-ID: <20150803194340.GF78154@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <55BF63A2.6060909@bananmonarki.se> References: <55BF63A2.6060909@bananmonarki.se>
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Bernt Hansson wrote this message on Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 14:50 +0200:
> Have an old usbstick that i bought 5-6 years ago it's a datatraveler 150.
>
> I used dd to transfer a cd image to it and now i can't "clean" it of the
> stick.
>
> Tried dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/da1 bs=1m count=100 but dd just taunting
> me with this:
>
> dd: /dev/da1: Input/output error
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes transferred in 65.558710 secs (0 bytes/sec)
>
> After that the led on the stick flashes like it is writing. But i don't
> know if it is writing.
>
> Is it possible to make it pristine again or is it forever lost?
Do you get any consol error messages?
I was thinking it might be because there was a partition or something
mounted, but I don't think that's the case, as it should have given you
an Operation not permitted error instead...
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