From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:51:36 -0500 To: conor.williams@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <573dcee27e153a7e9ad877e22ef5e904@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: References: <546c45999f1379d06a0b58e47b8cb0c5@mikro> <257c42.73550a3a.iYYk.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a007142c-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed Dec 18 04:48:29 EST 2013, conor.williams@gmail.com wrote: > i'm getting an error code 87 writing usbdisk to my key: >=20 > according to the web: The second fix prevents USB Image Tool from > restoring invalid images in device mode. A valid device mode image > has to be multiple of 512. If that=E2=80=99s not the case, the write > operation will fail with error code 87 close to the end of the > process. To prevent this, USB Image Tool now checks, if the image > file size is a multiple of 512. > http://www.alexpage.de/tag/usb-image-tool/ i'm not sure what tool you're using, but the image is a multiple of 512 bytes long. ; /tmp/usbinstamd64 bunzip2 ; ls -ltr /tmp --rw-rw-r-- M 788 quanstro quanstro 524288000 Dec 18 15:48 /tmp/usbinsta= md64 ; echo 524288000 % 512 | hoc 0 perhaps something got corrupted. the crash dump is good information but in this case the pc does not appea= r to be valid, so i don't see what's wrong yet. - erik