On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 11:56:44PM +0000, Mick wrote > On Friday 04 Jan 2013 20:27:38 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Under the heading of "grasping-for-straws"... does it have a physical > > write-protect switch? If such a switch was engaged, that would explain > > things. > > Hi Walter, > > No, it doesn't, but just in case it had some virtual lock I tried > (successfully) to run 'hdparm -L 0 /dev/sdb'. It did not make a difference.
One last gasp... were you doing this as root? Regular users cannot dd directly to a device, for obvious reasons. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
