From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 4 00:27:41 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 9DA679B2D67 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 00:27:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Received: from feeder.usenet4all.se (1-1-1-38a.far.sth.bostream.se [82.182.32.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 206081305 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 00:27:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Received: from testbox.news4all.se (testbox.usenet4all.se [10.0.0.3]) by feeder.usenet4all.se (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id t740Rbka062638; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 02:27:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Message-ID: <55C006F9.1080106@bananmonarki.se> Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 02:27:37 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Quartz CC: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it. References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> <55BFAC5D.5070309@sneakertech.com> <55BFEB3E.6000008@bananmonarki.se> <55BFFAE5.8040500@sneakertech.com> In-Reply-To: <55BFFAE5.8040500@sneakertech.com> 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: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 00:27:41 -0000 On 2015-08-04 01:36, 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. > > ... wait.... you've *never* been able to dd to this drive on any > machine? How does that work? > > > Well. Once, it was that cd image that i don't remember what it was 5-6 years ago. That usb stick is now in the bin. Took a SD card, and it booted linux cnc well and working.