From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4431382B3 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28DC1E0630; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:35:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f47.google.com (mail-wg0-f47.google.com [74.125.82.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4305221C0B4 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:32:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f47.google.com with SMTP id dq11so7832256wgb.14 for ; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:32:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=zOeauWv2I52tnYGex6j4Q0rXc0D/FjpMT7soN1mw2oI=; b=N6Qo26LCXH/dwGe/pWx5yDGkoY9eVKyQW2ScYgom0+dRnWMAWqMa2+r0fbvfjj2sow oBdmS0FUbrQZiaIIZfQmgEVdP6cXezjWhKYs5q+pVpKUNofJiLFVbgW42sqmmNvPNCTu osaslDyBpgM8cK6P4feRh74r6UZN0FUHrDczQvxSKJHv1kZI3dQ/FjLoc43gMm34foaU IlP9qRX9AWb40DEZH2GcSKYdpJR3ipI0lwDoOqYZSXvmx1UNpF1Xtr3WzOSDpjD0bQsz hclEnl8Kcu3T18d0RFxE5pzT/umxa4LgQYlxCUMX7YaNpj46Qg4l3525uGg3zHLynFnU 8PjQ== X-Received: by 10.180.85.165 with SMTP id i5mr81563538wiz.11.1357317160905; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:32:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id eo10sm91072019wib.9.2013.01.04.08.32.39 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:32:40 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] Resetting USB flash Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:32:14 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.6.11-gentoo; KDE/4.9.3; x86_64; ; ) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart30851959.bBuTMMBHPZ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201301041632.26752.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 53e562fe-7ac4-43ca-a73a-2761cb283f01 X-Archives-Hash: b81e9fe2f52d0f24ebd5dc72cb36f590 --nextPart30851959.bBuTMMBHPZ Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was trying to zero out a USB stick and at some point it seems to have loc= ked=20 itself up. By that I mean that for all intends and purposes I cannot write= to=20 it in any conceivable way. I tried to delete /dev/sdb1 with c/fdisk, the dd zeros into /dev/sdb1,=20 /dev/sdb and also the first 512B to delete the partition table, but nothing= =20 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=20 make it work again? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart30851959.bBuTMMBHPZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlDnBBoACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYFcQCgus5mWW3Fxz6EocCkdDPfm5uI 76YAnRNZkQ1ciMEIU8wGvP44jXNn22XF =mpd8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart30851959.bBuTMMBHPZ--