USB stick and some help with it.

[John-Mark Gurney]

Bernt Hansson wrote this message on Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 14:50 +0200:
> Have an old usbstick that i bought 5-6 years ago it's a datatraveler 150.
> 
> I used dd to transfer a cd image to it and now i can't "clean" it of the 
> stick.
> 
> Tried dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/da1 bs=1m count=100 but dd just taunting 
> me with this:
> 
> dd: /dev/da1: Input/output error
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes transferred in 65.558710 secs (0 bytes/sec)
> 
> After that the led on the stick flashes like it is writing. But i don't 
> know if it is writing.
> 
> Is it possible to make it pristine again or is it forever lost?

Do you get any consol error messages?

I was thinking it might be because there was a partition or something
mounted, but I don't think that's the case, as it should have given you
an Operation not permitted error instead...

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