[raspberry-vi] Thomas Edison
- From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:05:08 +0000
I have spent two days trying to get two memory cards resurrected. For
some reason every time I tried to zero these cards with:
sudo dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx
I was getting 'device full' when only about 156 megabytes of 8 gigabytes
had been written.
I've messed about with fdisk, parted, gparted and came pretty close to
trying a scraper.
I think I have finally traced the problem to a dodgy USB card reader.
But like Thomas Edison, who said he didn't fail in his attempts to make
a light bulb, but learned 2000 ways not to make a light bulb, I now know
far more about parted and disk partitioning under Linux and Windows than
I did 2 days ago.
There are two morals to this story, which I seem to have to learn and
re-learn periodically:
1. Don't trust the hardware if logic is telling you it's faulty.
2. Even if you're tearing your hair out by the roots and close to
throwing the computer and peripherals out of the window, you're probably
still learning something...even if it doesn't fall into place until the
last five minutes.
Once you have dismissed the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the solution. Sherlock Holmes.
Mike
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Michael A. Ray
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