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I lent my USB stick to a guy for a job the other day. Apparently his Win98 |
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box wanted to install drivers for it to work, so he pulled it before |
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Wintendo (anything < 2000) could get to doing its stuff. |
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Now I get |
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SuicidalPuppy martoni # mount /mnt/usb/ |
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mount: block device /dev/sda is write-protected, mounting read-only |
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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, |
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missing codepage or other error |
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In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try |
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dmesg | tail or so |
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And |
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SuicidalPuppy martoni # dmesg |tail |
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... |
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FAT: bogus logical sector size 255 |
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VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. |
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FAT: bogus logical sector size 255 |
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VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. |
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Googling a bit I found a few ideas how to get the USB-thingie up again. |
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Like: |
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SuicidalPuppy martoni # hdparm -r0 /dev/sda |
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/dev/sda: |
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setting readonly to 0 (off) |
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readonly = 0 (off) |
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SuicidalPuppy martoni # parted /dev/sda |
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Warning: Unable to open /dev/sda read-write (Read-only file system). |
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/dev/sda has been |
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opened read-only. |
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Warning: Unable to open /dev/sda read-write (Read-only file system). |
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/dev/sda has been |
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opened read-only. |
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And |
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SuicidalPuppy martoni # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda |
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dd: opening `/dev/sda': Read-only file system |
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I'm out of ideas now - Is the last shot to go out and buy a new USB stick? |
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Martin S |
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Regards, |
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Martin S |
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