| InHisName | Silent night | 04:14 |
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| InHisName | Good Morning | 04:14 |
| JonathanD | Morning. | 10:03 |
| rmg51 | morning JonathanD | 10:11 |
| JonathanD | Hey rmg51 | 10:12 |
| InHisName | Hello JonathanD and rmg51 | 11:41 |
| jedijf | science | 12:29 |
| waltman | SCIENCE! | 12:30 |
| * waltman sees that jedijf is also listening to XPN :) | 12:30 | |
| jedijf | always :) | 12:37 |
| jedijf | well, in the office always | 12:38 |
| InHisName | Well the program surely isn't science friday, so what is it about? | 12:46 |
| jedijf | InHisName: music - she blinded me with science, thomas dolby | 12:51 |
| jedijf | friday is funk friday's, of course | 12:51 |
| jedijf | funky* | 12:51 |
| InHisName | I C | 12:53 |
| ChinnoDog | I miss pennbot | 14:45 |
| ChinnoDog | Someone remind me again why PennBot isn't here. | 14:46 |
| ChinnoDog | If it is lack of resources I could run a supybot on my server | 14:49 |
| adom | hi all | 14:55 |
| adom | got a 4GB USB flash drive that's giving me errors when I try to reformat it. "Read-Only filesystem" I don't need to keep the data on it, just want to reformat it for normal everyday use. what should my next step be? | 14:56 |
| InHisName | ummm, maybe --->sudo format ? | 15:10 |
| jedijf | adom: unmount it and try | 15:16 |
| adom | tried that | 15:18 |
| adom | this is the first time ive ever seen this | 15:19 |
| adom | a usb flash drive that won't let you delete the partition, format the partition, format the drive, anything | 15:19 |
| adom | locked down | 15:19 |
| adom | and no hardware switch/toggle | 15:19 |
| adom | last shot is gparted. but need to download iso for that and boot into it. might do that in a few if i have to. | 15:20 |
| jedijf | adom: what are you using, fdisk? | 15:22 |
| adom | whatever will work, ill try fdisk | 15:22 |
| jedijf | sudo fdisk to delete partition and then mkfs -t vfat to make | 15:23 |
| jedijf | pick right disk/partitions | 15:23 |
| jedijf | just had someone blow up internal playing with usb on sat | 15:24 |
| jedijf | and then blame linux | 15:24 |
| adom | im guessing the drive should be unmounted when fdisking? | 15:43 |
| adom | jedijf: "unable to write /dev/sdc" | 15:45 |
| adom | wtf is going on with this flash drive...read-only *drive*? its one thing to see a read only partition, but the drive was working fine but now its read-only...? | 15:46 |
| adom | whats the method for writing zeros to a drive in linux? | 15:49 |
| adom | nvm ill google | 15:49 |
| InHisName | dd | 15:50 |
| adom | yeah that | 15:50 |
| InHisName | man dd | 15:50 |
| ChinnoDog | sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda | 15:50 |
| adom | thx | 15:50 |
| passstab | i learned that signifys a corrupt disk | 15:51 |
| ChinnoDog | If it is full of zeros there is nothing to be corrupt | 15:51 |
| adom | when i do dmesg | grep "\[sd" the drive hasthe write protect flag on | 15:52 |
| ChinnoDog | Are you zeroing the drive or a partition? | 15:52 |
| adom | unsure, which should i try? dont care about contents of drive, just want it usable again | 15:53 |
| ChinnoDog | be sure all partitions on the drive are unmounted and then zero the drive | 15:53 |
| ChinnoDog | Why is it not usable? | 15:54 |
| adom | its write-protected | 15:54 |
| adom | readonly filesystem | 15:54 |
| adom | cant delete partition or reformat drive | 15:54 |
| adom | crazyballs | 15:54 |
| adom | going to try dd | 15:54 |
| adom | dd: opening `/dev/sdc': Read-only file system | 15:55 |
| adom | craptacular | 15:55 |
| ChinnoDog | oh. Corrupt file system | 15:55 |
| ChinnoDog | /dev/sdc isn't a file system | 15:55 |
| ChinnoDog | oh, I see what you mean. Your disk might be bad | 15:56 |
| adom | right, but corrupt file system shouldnt stop me from wiping the *drive* right? | 15:56 |
| adom | oh | 15:56 |
| adom | didnt think of that | 15:56 |
| adom | i cna read the files on it fine, just can write/delete/modify | 15:56 |
| ChinnoDog | The disk gets marked as read only if it throws too many errors | 15:56 |
| adom | that seems to make sense | 15:56 |
| adom | so where am i looking for errors? | 15:56 |
| adom | is there a mounting log i should look at? | 15:57 |
| adom | /var/log/messages? | 15:57 |
| ChinnoDog | yea, or syslog. I forget where it appears | 15:57 |
| ChinnoDog | look for messages about errors attaching to the disk | 15:57 |
| adom | this is all i got | 15:59 |
| adom | /var/log/syslog:Mar 21 11:40:13 Hyperion kernel: [1119063.708844] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is on | 15:59 |
| aurigus | ive had problems wiping disks with drive errors. I used a drill to drill several holes through it, then shattered the platter with a hammer. | 16:33 |
| aurigus | brutal, effective, and cheaper than going to a psychologist | 16:33 |
| adom | point taken | 16:36 |
| adom | gparted was a flop | 16:36 |
| adom | still sees drive as read-only | 16:36 |
| adom | so, to sum up, every single method ive tried gives "drive is read-only" error of some sort | 16:37 |
| adom | its like its 96 and im trying to get files from a 3.5 diskette and the little write-protect toggle is on | 16:37 |
| adom | BUT THERE'S NO HARDWARE TOGGLE | 16:37 |
| adom | btw, i was 12 in 96, just for those of you that are wondering | 16:38 |
| adom | (i know you are) | 16:38 |
| adom | and we had our spanking new Hewlett-Packard with WIndows 3.1 if i remember correctly | 16:38 |
| ChinnoDog | I was 17 and I had a P90 wih Win95. Win95 was released in 94 so I was probably running Win95b by then. | 16:48 |
| rmg51 | ChinnoDog: for one so young you have a bad memory | 17:33 |
| rmg51 | according to wikipedia 95 was released aug.24 1995 | 17:34 |
| rmg51 | 95b didn't come out till just before 98 was released | 17:35 |
| rmg51 | 95b was oem only | 17:36 |
| rmg51 | and somewhat a preview of 98 | 17:37 |
| ChinnoDog | Oh. I thought it was released in 94 | 17:41 |
| ChinnoDog | Maybe I preordered in 94? lol | 17:41 |
| ChinnoDog | 95b was oem only but it didn't stop us from aquiring it | 17:42 |
| ChinnoDog | We kids /had/ to have it.. because 95a was so choc full of bugs | 17:42 |
| ChinnoDog | Also, fat32 | 17:43 |
| jedijf | adom: dareks boot and nuke | 17:45 |
| adom | back from lunch. going to boot up a copy of darek's bootnuke i have | 17:59 |
| adom | boot and nuke is a fail. when listing devices, it just lists the usb flash drive as "[????] Unrecognized Device" and i cant start the process | 18:06 |
| adom | done. telling the student to take it back to where he got it and shove it up their butt. | 18:19 |
| adom | with the reciept | 18:19 |
| adom | receipt? | 18:20 |
| adom | i always get ie/ei wrong | 18:20 |
| ChinnoDog | When two vowels go a walking the first one does the talking | 18:47 |
| ChinnoDog | kindergarten++ | 18:47 |
| ChinnoDog | except when they are friends... I guess. I don't know what other 'ie' exceptions there are. | 18:47 |
| cythes | Is PA doing another release party? | 19:23 |
| InHisName | Wanna start one, cythes? | 19:24 |
| cythes | If I had the know how / cash yeah lol | 19:28 |
| ssweeny | cythes, it's really not difficult | 19:29 |
| ssweeny | cythes, just post to the list: i will be at <location> with a laptop and party hat | 19:29 |
| cythes | Lol I would not know where to start one. | 19:30 |
| cythes | Go back to that place in Manayunk a while ago would be cool. But I live in pottstown so I would likely pick a place somewhere nearer... like the movie tavern in collgeville or something. | 19:32 |
| ssweeny | cythes, where do you live? | 19:32 |
| cythes | Pottstown | 19:32 |
| cythes | Well actually Just outside of Pottstown. | 19:32 |
| * jedijf was thinking manayunk again | 19:35 | |
| cythes | Problem being I would need a ride too / from. Doubt anyone would want to run me back to P-Town since I can likely get a ride too. Unlike last time pleia2 / ChinnoDog are not in the area lulz | 19:41 |
| aurigus | movie tavern! was there a few months ago | 20:10 |
| cythes | I would do on there... I just dont know how many people are in this local area of the Local people. | 20:12 |
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