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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Resetting USB flash
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:12:18 +0200
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On 04/01/13 18:32, Mick wrote:
> 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.

Can you elaborate on that?  Do you get any error messages from dd or in 
dmesg?