On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:31:15PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Debbie Tropiano wrote: > > > Is there any way to fix this? > > Given the symptoms you described and the fact that the drive fails with > multiple operating systems, your only recourse is to send it in for > servicing. Although unplugging a mounted drive might mess up a > filesystem, it certainly won't cause a write-protect switch to stop > working! Some part must be broken or burned out.
Given that it's a flash-based technology, my guess is that he's got cells
with half a charge in them. The internal controller probably can't really
figure out what to do with them.
Servicing or replacement is the only option.
Matt
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