Re: Bad USB drive?
On 1/1/22 01:16, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: Went to site, and tried to buy 3 of the 256G flashes, but on checkout it failed to support my address here in Guam (US Territory). It only seems to list the 50 states?? try amazon ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> what ever became of solid IBM clicky keyboards? :) ToddAndMargo: > https://www.pckeyboard.com > > They emulate an IBM Selectric typewriter. I > ABORE these keyboards. I bet they don't... The Selectric typewriter had a unique feel to it, no click as the key was pressed down, you just pressed the key down to the end-stop with a bit of a clack, and the spring resistance was matched so that didn't hurt your fingers. You could type really fast and easily on them. The sproingy IBM (and others) computer keyboard, which makes a hell of a racket as a spring suddenly bends part way through the key being depressed, is an entirely different affair. And nowhere as good for fast typing. As someone who's used both, they are nothing like each other. Some of the early dumb terminals had great keyboards, somewhat like the feel of using a Selectric kind of keyboard (tensioned hold-up springs behind the buttons, actual switches but silent). If you want a lasts-forever keyboard, you've got about two choices. One that no-longer exists, its keys dipped pins into pools of mercury (silent, and bounce free), or a hall-effect system where the keys whiz a magnet past a sensor (again, silent and bounce free). The cheap ones use that plastic/silicon-rubber dome bubbles to hold the keys up, which suddenly dimples in when pressed. The feel of that action is often terrible, but occasionally okay. Underneath them there's two common ways of doing the electrical switch: Pressing two flexible plastic circuit boards together so there's a capacitive change under the key press. As grot gets in, or the conductors get ground, they start to fail, and you have to hit some keys harder and harder for them to work. You might also get multiple key presses believed by the keyboard encoder. Rarer and older, a conductive carbon pad on the key dome was pressed across two circuit board traces when you hit the key. As grot gets in, or the carbon pad crumbles or gets contaminated with air polution, they go unreliable. Though some of that can be cleaned off by disassembling the keyboard (not a fun task, with a gazillion springs everywhere, often not actually attached to anything). I've done that on custom keyboards which can't actually be replaced any more. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.49.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 30 15:51:32 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
Went to site, and tried to buy 3 of the 256G flashes, but on checkout it failed to support my address here in Guam (US Territory). It only seems to list the 50 states?? On 1 Jan 2022 at 0:44, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Date sent: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 00:44:15 -0800 Subject:Re: Bad USB drive? To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users From: ToddAndMargo via users Copies to: ToddAndMargo > On 12/31/21 20:35, Tim via users wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robert Moskowitz: > > > I never use flash drives for any kind of backup purposes. The things > > have multiple failures (wearing out, electronic breakdown, static > > electricity, mechanically falling apart, getting scrambled by a PC with > > poor 5Vdc power supplies on the USB ports, getting reformatted by a > > computer that couldn't read their file system, and simply getting > > lost). And they're often too small, or their filesystem can't handle > > large files. I consider them only good for sneakernet purposes. > > > > I use and sell flash drives for backup, but only Samsung's. > The rest are a joke. > > https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/usb-flash-drives/ > > Samsung is also the only flash drive I have come > across the can handle a storm on small file transfers. > > Speaking of 'a storm on small file transfers", I have a > fully bootable Fedora 35 install on one of them. > Tried doing it on other brands and it trashed them. > A total waste of time. > > The getting lost is an issue. So far only one > customer has lost one. Usually they put them on > some kind of key chain and store them in a fireproof > media safe. > ___ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
On 12/31/21 20:35, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robert Moskowitz: I never use flash drives for any kind of backup purposes. The things have multiple failures (wearing out, electronic breakdown, static electricity, mechanically falling apart, getting scrambled by a PC with poor 5Vdc power supplies on the USB ports, getting reformatted by a computer that couldn't read their file system, and simply getting lost). And they're often too small, or their filesystem can't handle large files. I consider them only good for sneakernet purposes. I use and sell flash drives for backup, but only Samsung's. The rest are a joke. https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/usb-flash-drives/ Samsung is also the only flash drive I have come across the can handle a storm on small file transfers. Speaking of 'a storm on small file transfers", I have a fully bootable Fedora 35 install on one of them. Tried doing it on other brands and it trashed them. A total waste of time. The getting lost is an issue. So far only one customer has lost one. Usually they put them on some kind of key chain and store them in a fireproof media safe. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
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On 12/31/21 08:09, Robert Moskowitz wrote: what ever became of solid IBM clicky keyboards? :) https://www.pckeyboard.com They emulate an IBM Selectric typewriter. I ABORE these keyboards. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
On 12/21/21 17:39, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a 32Gb USB stick that is not showing up gparted. I insert it and I see it in /dev as sdb. No partitions. I tried fdisk: # fdisk -l /dev/sdb fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found Is this dead? Is there some other tool I can use to get it working? If there was ever anything on the drive, it would only be a copy of something, so nothing to try and recover. Other than a nice 32G USB stick. thanks! Hi Robert, Do you have any virtual machines running? If so, they may be attaching to the USB flash drive. If so, the host system won't see them. Also try ls -al /dev/sd* maybe it is not mounting on /dev/sdb. And worst come to worst, boot off a Fedora Flash drive and see if your drive in question mounts. https://spins.fedoraproject.org/xfce/ -T ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robert Moskowitz: >> It has been sitting in my "backed up" bin for over a year. I >> backed up something to it and now it is dead. >> >> Typically I back up something important with a double backup, On Fri, 2021-12-31 at 19:59 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > Yeah there's a Microcomputer Center near me. I sooner suspect it's > just a bad luck defect rather than fake flash. But also, some flash > out there will lose data when on the shelf too long. I never use flash drives for any kind of backup purposes. The things have multiple failures (wearing out, electronic breakdown, static electricity, mechanically falling apart, getting scrambled by a PC with poor 5Vdc power supplies on the USB ports, getting reformatted by a computer that couldn't read their file system, and simply getting lost). And they're often too small, or their filesystem can't handle large files. I consider them only good for sneakernet purposes. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.49.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 30 15:51:32 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > On 12/31/21 00:22, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 2:03 PM Robert Moskowitz > > wrote: > >> so something killed it and since tomorrow is garbage day... > >> > >> Sigh. that was a good $8 down the drain. > > Return it. Don't let people steal from you. Used a credit card? Report > > it. Do a charge back. You have 60 days from the date the statement > > containing the charge was mailed to you. If it's after 60 days, card > > might have an extended warranty on everything, give that a shot. > > > It has been sitting in my "backed up" bin for over a year. I backed up > something to it and now it is dead. > > Typically I back up something important with a double backup, like tax > records, so I doubt I really lost anything, but it is way past > warranty. Sigh. > > It is from Microcomputer Center over in Troy MI. They have these bins > of USB sticks very low price. No packaging, just take a couple out of > the bin at check out. I got a Dec present from them in a free 128GB > stick and bought 4 16GB for $5 each while I was restocking my DVD blanks > (stack of 500 Verbatim DVDs). They are a good place to pick up stuff > after a run to Costco; just a couple miles up the road. :) Yeah there's a Microcomputer Center near me. I sooner suspect it's just a bad luck defect rather than fake flash. But also, some flash out there will lose data when on the shelf too long. -- Chris Murphy ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
On 12/31/21 00:22, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 2:03 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: so something killed it and since tomorrow is garbage day... Sigh. that was a good $8 down the drain. Return it. Don't let people steal from you. Used a credit card? Report it. Do a charge back. You have 60 days from the date the statement containing the charge was mailed to you. If it's after 60 days, card might have an extended warranty on everything, give that a shot. It has been sitting in my "backed up" bin for over a year. I backed up something to it and now it is dead. Typically I back up something important with a double backup, like tax records, so I doubt I really lost anything, but it is way past warranty. Sigh. It is from Microcomputer Center over in Troy MI. They have these bins of USB sticks very low price. No packaging, just take a couple out of the bin at check out. I got a Dec present from them in a free 128GB stick and bought 4 16GB for $5 each while I was restocking my DVD blanks (stack of 500 Verbatim DVDs). They are a good place to pick up stuff after a run to Costco; just a couple miles up the road. :) I have returned other stuff to them that were bad and they were very good at returns. Separate problem I have is keyboards. My acid sweat wears off the letters. 'N' is worst, 'E', 'D', 'V', and 'O' are wearing too. I bought this supposedly good HP keyboard about a year ago. I stopped getting their Inland cheap boards, as those were wearing off in a few months. I was more tired of going through the return process than they seemed to be with the returns of 'defective' keyboards. I just want a simple USB keyboard that is plugged into my KVM... what ever became of solid IBM clicky keyboards? :) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 2:03 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > so something killed it and since tomorrow is garbage day... > > Sigh. that was a good $8 down the drain. Return it. Don't let people steal from you. Used a credit card? Report it. Do a charge back. You have 60 days from the date the statement containing the charge was mailed to you. If it's after 60 days, card might have an extended warranty on everything, give that a shot. -- Chris Murphy ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
so something killed it and since tomorrow is garbage day... Sigh. that was a good $8 down the drain. On 12/22/21 15:39, Roger Heflin wrote: It never showed a size, so if there is anything connected to it that still works, then the controller no longer sees it or knows about it. The media removed is what you would see on a device you would plug a sd memory card into with no card connected. On Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 9:16 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/21/21 23:33, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 8:42 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I have a 32Gb USB stick that is not showing up gparted. >> >> I insert it and I see it in /dev as sdb. No partitions. >> >> I tried fdisk: >> >> # fdisk -l /dev/sdb >> fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found >> >> >> Is this dead? Is there some other tool I can use to get it working? If >> there was ever anything on the drive, it would only be a copy of >> something, so nothing to try and recover. Other than a nice 32G USB stick. >> >> thanks! >> > Did you check dmesg for error messages associated with it? just reinserted it and checked out dmesg: [310838.123104] usb 5-2: new high-speed USB device number 32 using xhci_hcd [310838.250288] usb 5-2: New USB device found, idVendor=, idProduct=1201, bcdDevice= 0.00 [310838.250311] usb 5-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 [310838.255566] usb-storage 5-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [310838.258932] scsi host1: usb-storage 5-2:1.0 [310839.294989] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access NAND USB2DISK 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 [310839.299399] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [310839.299732] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Media removed, stopped polling [310839.301528] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk But: # fdisk -l /dev/sdb fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure ___ users mailing list --users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email tousers-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives:https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it:https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
It never showed a size, so if there is anything connected to it that still works, then the controller no longer sees it or knows about it. The media removed is what you would see on a device you would plug a sd memory card into with no card connected. On Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 9:16 AM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 12/21/21 23:33, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 8:42 PM Robert Moskowitz > wrote: > >> I have a 32Gb USB stick that is not showing up gparted. > >> > >> I insert it and I see it in /dev as sdb. No partitions. > >> > >> I tried fdisk: > >> > >> # fdisk -l /dev/sdb > >> fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found > >> > >> > >> Is this dead? Is there some other tool I can use to get it working? If > >> there was ever anything on the drive, it would only be a copy of > >> something, so nothing to try and recover. Other than a nice 32G USB > stick. > >> > >> thanks! > >> > >Did you check dmesg for error messages associated with it? > > just reinserted it and checked out dmesg: > > [310838.123104] usb 5-2: new high-speed USB device number 32 using xhci_hcd > [310838.250288] usb 5-2: New USB device found, idVendor=, > idProduct=1201, bcdDevice= 0.00 > [310838.250311] usb 5-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, > SerialNumber=0 > [310838.255566] usb-storage 5-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected > [310838.258932] scsi host1: usb-storage 5-2:1.0 > [310839.294989] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access NAND USB2DISK > 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 > [310839.299399] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 > [310839.299732] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Media removed, stopped polling > [310839.301528] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk > > But: > > # fdisk -l /dev/sdb > fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found > > ___ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
On 12/21/21 23:33, Mauricio Tavares wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 8:42 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have a 32Gb USB stick that is not showing up gparted. I insert it and I see it in /dev as sdb. No partitions. I tried fdisk: # fdisk -l /dev/sdb fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found Is this dead? Is there some other tool I can use to get it working? If there was ever anything on the drive, it would only be a copy of something, so nothing to try and recover. Other than a nice 32G USB stick. thanks! Did you check dmesg for error messages associated with it? just reinserted it and checked out dmesg: [310838.123104] usb 5-2: new high-speed USB device number 32 using xhci_hcd [310838.250288] usb 5-2: New USB device found, idVendor=, idProduct=1201, bcdDevice= 0.00 [310838.250311] usb 5-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 [310838.255566] usb-storage 5-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [310838.258932] scsi host1: usb-storage 5-2:1.0 [310839.294989] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access NAND USB2DISK 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 [310839.299399] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [310839.299732] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Media removed, stopped polling [310839.301528] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk But: # fdisk -l /dev/sdb fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
On Wed, 2021-12-22 at 16:18 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > Install package f3 and run the f3probe. > Probable a fake flash. Bought an 8g flash that was too > cheap. It comes up originally as 4 2T usb devices, but the > f3probe calls it as fake, and reports it as 4 about 64G > devices so it again looks nice, but is useless fake device. > Facebook SCAMs that they keep pushing and getting > bigger and bigger. NB: Don't expect to be able to recover data from the drive after this. If the drive is fake, the test is going to overwrite data. Description : F3 is a utility to test for fake flash drives and cards. It is a : Free Software alternative to h2testw. f3write will fill the : unused part of a filesystem with files .fff with known : content, and f3read will analyze the files to determine whether : the contents are corrupted, as happens with fake flash. A real drive should just get further filled up to capacity, fake drives often wrap-around when filled up beyond their real capacity. It boggles the mind how someone could go to the trouble of making fake drives. Is it just selling of failed builds? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.49.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 30 15:51:32 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
Install package f3 and run the f3probe. Probable a fake flash. Bought an 8g flash that was too cheap. It comes up originally as 4 2T usb devices, but the f3probe calls it as fake, and reports it as 4 about 64G devices so it again looks nice, but is useless fake device. Facebook SCAMs that they keep pushing and getting bigger and bigger. On 21 Dec 2021 at 23:33, Mauricio Tavares wrote: From: Mauricio Tavares Date sent: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:33:10 -0500 Subject:Re: Bad USB drive? To: Community support for Fedora users Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 8:42 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > > I have a 32Gb USB stick that is not showing up gparted. > > > > I insert it and I see it in /dev as sdb. No partitions. > > > > I tried fdisk: > > > > # fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found > > > > > > Is this dead? Is there some other tool I can use to get it working? If > > there was ever anything on the drive, it would only be a copy of > > something, so nothing to try and recover. Other than a nice 32G USB stick. > > > > thanks! > > > Did you check dmesg for error messages associated with it? > > ___ > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > ___ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
Re: Bad USB drive?
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 8:42 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > I have a 32Gb USB stick that is not showing up gparted. > > I insert it and I see it in /dev as sdb. No partitions. > > I tried fdisk: > > # fdisk -l /dev/sdb > fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No medium found > > > Is this dead? Is there some other tool I can use to get it working? If > there was ever anything on the drive, it would only be a copy of > something, so nothing to try and recover. Other than a nice 32G USB stick. > > thanks! > Did you check dmesg for error messages associated with it? > ___ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
