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Date:      Tue, 04 Aug 2015 02:27:37 +0200
From:      Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se>
To:        Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: USB stick and some help with it.
Message-ID:  <55C006F9.1080106@bananmonarki.se>
In-Reply-To: <55BFFAE5.8040500@sneakertech.com>
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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.



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