BTW, the SoaS Caroline gave me on SugarCamp (thanks!) is quite unreliable in one of my computers (it also confirms my suspection about the trouble she was having with my Assimilator software: hardware flakeyness). If you're using this run of sticks at the GPA, you can add it to the list of potential causes for stick failure. As you're about to buy the next run: Do you have a "sample" model that you can try out in lots of different computers? Just run the following command in Linux, with only the to-be-tested USB stick plugged in:
dd if=/dev/disk/by-id/usb<press TAB once> of=/dev/null e.g. for the stick mentioned above:dd if=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-CHIPSBNK_USB_2.0_260917004B813900-0\:0 of=/dev/null
If there's a problem, an error message will be printed as part of the output:
sascha.si...@twin:~$ dd if=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-CHIPSBNK_USB_2.0_260917004B813900-0\:0 of=/dev/null dd: reading `/dev/disk/by-id/usb-CHIPSBNK_USB_2.0_260917004B813900-0:0': Input/output error
468448+0 records in 468448+0 records out 239845376 bytes (240 MB) copied, 14.7675 s, 16.2 MB/s sascha.si...@twin:~$ If it's sucessfull, the whole stick will have been read:sascha.si...@elaine:~$ dd if=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-CHIPSBNK_USB_2.0_260917004B813900-0\:0 of=/dev/null
2046976+0 records in 2046976+0 records out 1048051712 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 67.108 s, 15.6 MB/s sascha.si...@elaine:~$ CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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