On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 10:02:44AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > I tried to dd to /dev/sd2 (or whatever the number was), and it looked > > > good on the screen, no error message, but nothing happened on the USB > > > stick. > > > 3 possibilities here: > > > a) You wrote to the wrong device. > > b) You now have a copy of the input file in /dev > > c) _Very_ exotic HW issue. (You write to the device; the device says "write > > OK" > > but, it doesn't actually write anything. I've known this to happen on > > some > > models of eMMC/SDHC cards.)
I suspect b) :) happened to me before too. Just check your /dev with `ls -altr' it should show up easily. As for the device name, `dmesg | tail` will tell what drive was added and then use the raw partion like /dev/rsd2 or similar. Reinoud
