03-25-2010, 03:20 PM
The partition and formatting on a USB flash memory drive is sometimes a bit faulty.
Symptoms include (but are not limited to) FreeBSD complaining about the start and/or end of the partition not being on a track boundary, the total number of sectors not being a multiple of the number of tracks, the drive not being recognized especially in MS Vista and errors when saving files in Windows.
If you have a malfunctioning USB stick try this:
Copy off any files you want to keep. (Important)
Plug in the stick and check what device it is recognized as. It's usually da0 if you don't have any SCSI drives. But CHECK.
Symptoms include (but are not limited to) FreeBSD complaining about the start and/or end of the partition not being on a track boundary, the total number of sectors not being a multiple of the number of tracks, the drive not being recognized especially in MS Vista and errors when saving files in Windows.
If you have a malfunctioning USB stick try this:
Copy off any files you want to keep. (Important)
Plug in the stick and check what device it is recognized as. It's usually da0 if you don't have any SCSI drives. But CHECK.