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I've had an usb stick of death for years now. Any system you plug it in instantly freezes. No idea how I made it, but it was certainly not the goal! And whateve
by bashzor 14y ago
I've had an usb stick of death for years now. Any system you plug it in instantly freezes. No idea how I made it, but it was certainly not the goal! And whatever I do, I can't get it to overwrite whatever data is on there :P
- nodata 14y agoUnder Linux, if you get a stack trace they can fix this: they love fuzzing errors.
- chuppo 14y agoPost a stacktrace? You can take a photo for us of the kernel panic.
- bashzor 14y agoIt doesn't crash (no kernel panic), just makes the system so slow that you can't use it anymore until you pull the stick out.
- k_bx 14y agoif you dd on another usb-drive the same data -- will it stay the same? if yes -- you could post it somewhere and try to get more details etc.
- nitrogen 14y agoI've seen a feature phone do this as well, when "powered off" in charging-only mode.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoOh hey, I had one of those too. I eventually smashed it and threw it out because I tired of plugging it in and having slow down problems. (I noticed it first when I was working with the jump drive and had the system grind to a halt. Removed the drive and it immediately unfroze. further testing confirmed)
- Tobu 14y agoBoot Linux, disable automount, make a raw copy using dd, upload somewhere?