On 2018-07-20 14:48:39, Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > > 1 of 2 things is going wrong here. >
I'd like to offer a 3rd possibility. It's possible the drive itself could be counterfeit. There are plenty of websites out there with more information, but I'll include this snippet from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive#Counterfeit_products Counterfeit USB flash drives are sometimes sold with claims of having higher capacities than they actually have. These are typically low capacity USB drives which are modified so that they emulate larger capacity drives (for example, a 2 GB drive being marketed as a 64 GB drive). When plugged into a computer, they report themselves as being the larger capacity they were sold as, but when data is written to them, either the write fails, the drive freezes up, or it overwrites existing data. Software tools exist to check and detect fake USB drives, and in some cases it is possible to repair these devices to remove the false capacity information and use its real storage limit. I did a bit of searching and found a tool called "f3" that claims to be able to detect counterfeit drives. http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/ https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3/ https://askubuntu.com/questions/1011248/fakeflashfraud-f3-what-are-the-different-types-of-counterfeits John, before you continue with trying to format and label the drive, I'd recommend you try running the f3 tool mentioned above to be sure the drive itself isn't a fake. If it is, then you're most likely going to lose data if you attempt to store any data on it. You would almost certainly want to ask for a refund too. -- Bryan _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
