Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 07:30:25AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > David Wright writes: > > I've not heard of that problem. You were prevented from zeroing the > > entire device, which would have wiped the partition table anyway. > > > > What I would want to check is that the OS isn't doing some

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 07:30:25AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: I suspect this is the crux of the problem. the adapter I connected is a card reader. You put the SSD in a little plastic jacket that holds the SSD in such a way that the card reader can access the edge connector but the h

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Martin McCormick
David Wright writes: > I've not heard of that problem. You were prevented from zeroing the > entire device, which would have wiped the partition table anyway. > > What I would want to check is that the OS isn't doing something > stupid, like trying to automount it, failing, and consequently > set

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 07:39:12AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 09:07:31PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/sdh: 28.8 GiB, 30908350464 bytes, 60367872 sectors > > Disk model: USB HS-SD Card > > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 byt

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 09:07:31PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > Command (m for help): p > Disk /dev/sdh: 28.8 GiB, 30908350464 bytes, 60367872 sectors > Disk model: USB HS-SD Card > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minim

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-27 8:54 p.m., Martin McCormick wrote: Great suggestions but I can't. Part of the typescript output I included was me doing just that and I was root when I did it but the squawk is that I don't have permission as if I wasn't root. Oops! Sorry I missed the operation not permitted mess

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 28/1/22 9:54 am, Martin McCormick wrote: Great suggestions but I can't. Part of the typescript output I included was me doing just that and I was root when I did it but the squawk is that I don't have permission as if I wasn't root. If writing to the SSD card was possible, I could

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread Martin McCormick
Bijan Soleymani writes: > Can you delete both partitions, create a new single linux partition, > reboot > then run mkfs.ext4 to create a single new partition and then just install > linux onto it or try dd again? Great suggestions but I can't. Part of the typescript output I included was me doi

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Jan 2022 at 16:58:01 (-0600), Martin McCormick wrote: > Charles Curley writes: > > I'm no expert on RPis, but that sounds to me like the SD card is > > protected against writes. Check for any physical write protection > > switches on the card itself and the holder. > > Thanks for the su

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-26 10:07 p.m., Martin McCormick wrote: The SSD passed a fsck test earlier in the day before I blew it up so the chip should be salvageable. I don't care for recovering either of the two partitions which will be overwritten anyway if the SSD can be made writable again. Can yo

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread Martin McCormick
Charles Curley writes: > I'm no expert on RPis, but that sounds to me like the SD card is > protected against writes. Check for any physical write protection > switches on the card itself and the holder. Thanks for the suggestion, but this is one of those SSD cards that often is found in a camera

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 21:07:31 -0600 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > 1wb5agz martin tmp $ sudo dd if=~/rpi/rpi2_good.img of=/dev/sdh > [sudo] password for martin: > dd: writing to '/dev/sdh': Operation not permitted > 1+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes copied, 0.021666 s, 0.0 kB/s > 2wb5agz ma