On Monday 02 December 2019 16:02:59 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 02/12/2019 à 02:30, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > What I did was plug the u-sd into a card reader/writer. > > > > The card wasn't recognized and dd refused to write to it. > > What do you mean *precisely* by "wasn't recognized" ? > Ack dmesg, it was /dev/sdf but that was all. Normally it goes on to define /dev/sdf1. But this one did not. Normally you write the iso to the whole device, /dev/sdf so I didn't think much until I tried to write a raspbian iso to it. The iso was good, I'd written it several times already, then edited it so it booted into a complete live system.
And dd locked up until a ctl-c was issued. > > Then someone said I need to install exfat, > > Bullshit. > dd does not care about the filesystem. > > > but that it took a kernel version of 5.4 to use it. > > Bullshit again. > Exfat is managed in userspace (FUSE), not by the kernel. So it sounds like I actually have a bad card. But both of my readers are in the garage ATM and I don't trust this old dell to do it right anyway, its memory starved and dbus/dcop or whatever its using for interprocess com isn't working. My main machine went up in smoke & flames Friday, had to put it out with a fire extinguisher and it will be the end of the week to get enough stuff in to build a new one. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
