Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors

2021-11-24 Thread Bob Weber
On 11/24/21 11:52, Kenneth Parker wrote: Try Steve Gibson's initdisk.  It claims: "Experience has shown that USB thumb drives believed to be dead may be brought back to life with InitDisk." https://www.grc.com/initdisk.htm Steve has done a lot of testing on USB flash drives and has discovered

Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors

2021-11-24 Thread piorunz
On 24/11/2021 16:10, Curt wrote: On 2021-11-24, piorunz wrote: On 24/11/2021 10:04, Sven Hartge wrote: Should I throw it away? Yes. Agree. I had some bad USBs, did a lot of trickery on them but never were able to revive them and put them back to any reasonable use. Bin. I thought I had a

Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors

2021-11-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 7:56 AM deloptes wrote: > I'm sure there are many ideas around, but I want to hear your opinion > > so there is one USB stick that I noticed started mocking about errors when > booting off. > It's giving you more feedback than one of mine did. It just timed out on all I/O

Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors

2021-11-24 Thread Curt
On 2021-11-24, piorunz wrote: > On 24/11/2021 10:04, Sven Hartge wrote: >>> Should I throw it away? >> Yes. > > Agree. I had some bad USBs, did a lot of trickery on them but never were > able to revive them and put them back to any reasonable use. Bin. > I thought I had a bad one once but it was

Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors

2021-11-24 Thread piorunz
On 24/11/2021 10:04, Sven Hartge wrote: Should I throw it away? Yes. Agree. I had some bad USBs, did a lot of trickery on them but never were able to revive them and put them back to any reasonable use. Bin. -- With kindest regards, Piotr. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating s

Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors

2021-11-24 Thread Sven Hartge
deloptes wrote: > I'm sure there are many ideas around, but I want to hear your opinion > so there is one USB stick that I noticed started mocking about errors when > booting off. > I ran badblocks (without options) and then with -s -n and this produced a > slightly different output. > Is the ou