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