Re: Problem withj dd

[Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>]

	Hi.

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:39:42AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I've downloaded the netinst iso with intention of copying it to a flash
> drive. I've done it before without problem.
> 
> > root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# dd bs=64k if=/home/richard/Downloads/debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdc
> > dd: failed to open '/dev/sdc': No medium found
> > root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# ls /dev/sdc
> > /dev/sdc
> > root@debian-jan13:/home/richard#
> 
> What's happening?
> [or perhaps "What have I forgotten?"]

That's a legitimate question, but a better one(s) would be:

1) What's the output of "parted /dev/sdc"?

2) If the flash drive has a filesystem, is it mounted somewhere, or not?

3) What's the output of "smartctl -a /dev/sdc"?

4) What does show

strace dd if=.../debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=64k

5) Can one be really sure that "/dev/sdc" is a flash drive?

Reco