On Wed 02 Oct 2019 at 10:06:21 (-0400), Ken Heard wrote: > On 2019-10-01 11:03 p.m., David Christensen wrote: > > > I have read that some USB flash drives will revert to read-only > > mode when they detect an internal error. > > Makes sense I suppose, but in a negative way. I did not know that > flash drives (some? all?) do have this feature. > > > This gives the user a chance to copy out their data. > > I would have had to do so if the data there I needed to keep. > > > My limited experience with failing USB flash drives is that they go > > from read-write to read-only to useless in a matter of minutes or > > seconds. > > Strange. I had two other flash drives fail at about the same time; > both I was able to resuscitate with luksformat. Neither of those had > the ro marker.
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1878) Cheers, David.
