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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] Resetting USB flash
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:32:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201301041632.26752.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)

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I was trying to zero out a USB stick and at some point it seems to have locked 
itself up.  By that I mean that for all intends and purposes I cannot write to 
it in any conceivable way.

I tried to delete /dev/sdb1 with c/fdisk, the dd zeros into /dev/sdb1, 
/dev/sdb and also the first 512B to delete the partition table, but nothing 
seems to work.

/dev/sdb1 is still there no matter how I try to delete/format/overwrite it.

Is there a way of resetting whatever needs resetting in the USB flash chip to 
make it work again?
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Regards,
Mick

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             reply	other threads:[~2013-01-04 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-04 16:32 Mick [this message]
2013-01-04 16:48 ` [gentoo-user] [OT] Resetting USB flash Michael Mol
2013-01-04 17:18   ` Mick
2013-01-04 17:32     ` Paul Hartman
2013-01-04 19:13       ` Mick
2013-01-04 18:43     ` [gentoo-user] " James
2013-01-04 19:16       ` Mick
2013-01-04 20:27         ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-04 23:56           ` Mick
2013-01-05  2:26             ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-05 10:05               ` Mick
2013-01-07  3:13                 ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-07  6:44                   ` Mick
2013-01-04 19:12 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-01-04 19:29   ` Mick
2013-01-04 22:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2013-01-04 23:59   ` Mick

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