On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:32:14 +0000 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> 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. > > 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? USB sticks don't last long. When they do that, they are nuked. They cost about as much as a packet of smokes. Chuck it in the bin, buy a new one, move on. It's not worth the time to even attempt to fix it. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
