On Sat 27 May 2017 at 14:19:29 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 05/27/2017 12:40 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: > >David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> writes: > >># cat /etc/debian_version > >8.8 > > >># uname -a > >Linux audio2 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2 (2017-04-30) i686 > >GNU/Linux > > >># fdisk -l /dev/sdc > >fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdc: No medium found > > >># dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc count=2048; sync > >dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sdc’: No medium found > > The path to your device node appears to contain unicode. Is that an > e-mail artifact, or did you feed a unicode path to dd? This is why > I said "paste your console session into a reply" -- so we can verify > the command that was actually run.
I hadn't noticed it before, but dd uses “real” quotation marks in its error message. Who would have thought it? I'd be interested to see the contents of file /run/udev/data/b8:X where X is typically a power of two. The file appears as the stick is plugged in. If the stick is partitioned, files b8:X+1, etc also appear, one for each partition. Cheers, David.
