Re: USB stick broken?

[Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>]

In that case, I'd have to suggest turning on the verbose debugging for USB 
and seeing if you can figure out what's up at the low level. Of course, 
this is probably not worth your while since you can get a new one for $20 
or so online....

ap

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On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Klaus Pieper wrote:

> > 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
>
> Andrew,
>
> Just wanted to backup the mbr before overwriting it.
> dd of=/dev/sdb gives the same error message.
>
> Klaus
>
>
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