[Gloucs] USB flash drive testing tools

[Nic Barry]

/dev/zero is null. eg: nothing written. It is used for erasing a disk.  
You need to use. dd if= /home/joe/file of=/dev/sd?

Best regards
Nic Barry MBCS

On 9 Jun 2010, at 23:15, Graham Nye <graham.nye at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> Glyn Davies wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend a tool on Linux for testing a USB flash drive.
>>
>> Have  a 8GB Ebay bargain here and am having some fun and games  
>> which may or
>> may not be the flash drives fault.
>>
>>
> I've used dd if=/dev/zero to try out a SD card. It seemed to object to
> having a few 100MB written to it in one go but seemed happier with
> smaller files.
>
>
> -- 
> Graham Nye
> graham at thenyes.org.uk
>
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