Re: USB stick broken?
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Klaus Pieper wrote:
host# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1K count=1
etch:~# dd if=/dev/sdb of=mbr bs=1k count=1
dd: opening `/dev/sdb': No medium found
This may not be your only problem, but it probably is one of them. You're
trying to *read* from your memory stick here, not write to it. If you want
to blank the memory stick, you need to use the prior command:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
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