On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > I was trying to zero out a USB stick and at some point it seems to have locked > itself up. By that I mean that for all intends and purposes I cannot write to > it in any conceivable way. > > I tried to delete /dev/sdb1 with c/fdisk, the dd zeros into /dev/sdb1, > /dev/sdb and also the first 512B to delete the partition table, but nothing > seems to work. > > /dev/sdb1 is still there no matter how I try to delete/format/overwrite it. > > Is there a way of resetting whatever needs resetting in the USB flash chip to > make it work again? > -- > Regards, > Mick
Was it a drive with U3 on it? If so, there are tools you might use, but I can't remember their name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3 -- :wq
