[vlc-devel] USB keys from VDD

[Sergio M. Ammirata, Ph.D.]

Here is the complete message (I hit send on the last one by accident
before I was done writing):

I tested the 10 leftover ones and only 1 had the problem. Hopefully this
statistic is representative of the rest of the group. If you want to be
sure, run this command on a linux machine:


badblocks -w -s -o usbstick.log /dev/sdx

In my machine it would take about 2.5 hours to complete (except for the
bad drive which I stopped after 3.5 hours). You can periodically check the
usbstick.log file and if it is not empty, your drive has a problem!

I apologize if you got a bad one.

Sergio

On 9/8/13 6:03 AM, "Sergio M. Ammirata, Ph.D." <sergio at ammirata.net> wrote:

>I tested the 10 leftover ones and only 1 had the problems. Hopefully this
>statistic is representative of the rest of the group. If you want to be
>sure, run this command on linux machine:
>
>
>On 9/4/13 4:05 AM, "Mirsal Ennaime" <mirsal at videolan.org> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 17:30 +0200, Francois Cartegnie wrote:
>>> I strongly advise you to check (badblocks) USB keys, that Ringo kindly
>>> gave us at VDD, prior use.
>>>
>>> Mine is totally defective after 8GB, which sounds like a fake 16GB.
>>
>>Same here, half of it is defunct.
>>8GB is still a very useful capacity, though :)
>>
>>cheers,
>>
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