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>> 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.

... wait.... you've *never* been able to dd to this drive on any 
machine? How does that work?