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Date:      Mon, 03 Aug 2015 11:07:47 -0600
From:      jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB stick and some help with it.
Message-ID:  <55BF9FE3.3030606@gmail.com>
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On 08/03/2015 11:04 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>
>
> On 2015-08-03 18:39, jd1008 wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 08/03/2015 10:34 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2015-08-03 18:26, jd1008 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 08/03/2015 10:21 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2015-08-03 18:00, jd1008 wrote:
>>>>>> Are you invoking the command as root or regular user?
>>>>>
>>>>> As root.
>>>> If your installation cannot write to the raw device, then
>>>> it  is either a bug or .....????
>>>>
>>>> One thing that you have to be aware of is that if you
>>>> dd an iso image to a flash, then afterwards, the OS
>>>> will always assume it is a non-writable cdrom; that
>>>> is until you dd /dev/zero into the raw device while
>>>> it is not mounted.
>>>>
>>> There is no rda* on FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p15 #0
>> So how will a user write to the raw device?
> You tell me. I don't know.

OK, so in your installation what do you see in /dev as far as disk 
devices that are raw
(i.e. their name starts with r)?



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