-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2019-10-01 11:03 p.m., David Christensen wrote:
> I have read that some USB flash drives will revert to read-only > mode when they detect an internal error. Makes sense I suppose, but in a negative way. I did not know that flash drives (some? all?) do have this feature. > This gives the user a chance to copy out their data. I would have had to do so if the data there I needed to keep. > My limited experience with failing USB flash drives is that they go > from read-write to read-only to useless in a matter of minutes or > seconds. Strange. I had two other flash drives fail at about the same time; both I was able to resuscitate with luksformat. Neither of those had the ro marker. > What happens if you insert the USB drive into a Windows machine and > try to format it (cancel out before doing the actual format)? > macOS? FreeBSD? Other? I will have to try using it with other versions of the Turing machine as soon as I have access to same. Ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQR9YFyM2lJAhDprmoOU2UnM6QmZNwUCXZSu1wAKCRCU2UnM6QmZ N1n+AJ9Nixu4KhokPJNYbDES+fGakzDCiQCfWYa9G038uQMwB81/rD1f0BpQdOE= =ml+2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----