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Subject: Re: usb-storage: how to ruin your hardware(?)
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"H.Rosmanith (Kernel Mailing List)" <kernel@wildsau.idv.uni.linz.at> writes:

>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:59:14AM +0200, H.Rosmanith (Kernel Mailing List) wrote:
>> 
>> > the contradiction to this is that the flashdisk can be used
>> > in a "partition-less" state where it is possible to use the
>> > whole device at one: "mke2fs /dev/sdb". you have to use the
>> > vendor formating-tool to make the flashdisk look like an USB_FDD
>> > device. but even in USB_HDD mode with partitions, the partitions
>> > still look strange, not ending on cylinder boundaries and so on.
>> 
>> I have seen several posts from you, but all in this vague, almost
>> information-free style.

>the information is vague, because I don't exactly know how I manage
>to stop the drive working.

Back it up:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/save bs=512 count=<number of blocks on your flash disk>

Clean it:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=100

See what happens. If it does not work any longer, we can take a peek
at the backup (especially the first few sectors).

	Regards
		Henning

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