From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 4 00:33:19 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 9D4949B2F7A for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 00:33:19 +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 205EF187E for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 00:33:18 +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 t740XFa4062766 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 02:33:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Message-ID: <55C0084B.4000209@bananmonarki.se> Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 02:33:15 +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: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it. [SOLVED] The usb stick is in the trash now. References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> 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 00:33:19 -0000 On 2015-08-03 15:20, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello list. > > > 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? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >