Ah. never had the need to do that. I like te idea of dd becausse it is pretty much the option that ensures thet the byte patterns are identical. If that doesnt work its 99% sure to be a hardware issue and no point in wasting more time on software fixes.
I have a similar problem with Sandisk ultra sticks. The older one I have works ok as a OTG stick for my mobiles, but newer ones don't. I was using them for TWRP backups. But I stumbled across something that works all the times in all my mobiles and that is a micro sd card in a usb adaptor.
Gparted from a Linux boot USB / DVD is a handy tool for such things.
Have you got / tried these tools OOI?
Cheers, T i m
I had to get a ramstick multi way copiers firmware updated last year to cope with the more modern hardware. On a pc you can simply get different drivers, but on old fixed gear there is little you can do unless there is updated firmware made for it. Their web site might have it. Brian
Not if he has formatted them, besides mostly those tend to emulate floppy discs and are ignored by stick players. Brian
No it was not in our case it was some differently numbered NAB hardware issue that was reported. Pcs say installing driver software, but things not updatable will need to have their firmware changed to cope with the more modern hardware.
I This has been my experience on bulk copiers. Brian
He already said he had reformatted them. I have to do this since most modern one come ntfs by default which all our ram stick players cannot see. Fat or fat 32 does work, but as I said we could not get the copier to copy to the new hardware type very reliably till we changed the firmware. Brian
Format them to plain old fat. That might work but of course it will only be any good on the smaller sticks. Brian
Yes, creating an exact byte-for-byte copy is an advantage of dd.
It's got some inherent limitations due to its method of operation, like being unable to expand or shrink filesystems (which can be more of a problem than you think, because even drives that are nominaly the same size are normally not *exactly* the same size). But it's an impressive tool given that it's about 45 years old.
And I still like the piss-take user interface.
OK I've dug out an old XP system - reformatted the USB stick re-copied and no change the MP3 boogey box still doesn't see it.
SO, I've also dug out a copy of Linux MINT on CD and tried the 'dd' clone that was suggested, but I'm getting 'access denied' on the source USB stick which I don't understand. So I've used the gui 'format USB Stick' under mint on of of the new sticks which ran ok so then copied MP3 files onto it but it still isn't seen by the boom box :( :(
argh . . . . !
Andrew
Reformatting the memory stick will just re-create the filesystem on the existing partition. If the partition alignment is the problem (a big if), this won't fix the problem.
What you'd need to do is to delete the existing partition and then recreate it with the "correct" (for your media player) alignment and then format that to create the filesystem.
I realise I'd been a bit sloppy in calling re-partitioning "reformatting" in my earlier post - sorry for that.
You probably need:
sudo dd ...
Because you need to be root to access the raw device.
In the past, I have used the linux gparted (gui) application to fix a USB stick problem.
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