cool man, nice follow up... it's the bell-labs one is code 87... your one
was fine but it crashed... and that was the pic I sent...

don't worry too much about it... gonna get some of my old hardware after
christmas, that I know is supported... I will let you know what happens
then my friend...


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 8:51 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > 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’s 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.
>
>         ; </n/atom/ftp/usbinstamd64.bz2 >/tmp/usbinstamd64 bunzip2
>         ; ls -ltr /tmp
>         --rw-rw-r-- M 788 quanstro quanstro 524288000 Dec 18 15:48
> /tmp/usbinstamd64
>         ; echo 524288000 % 512 | hoc
>         0
>
> perhaps something got corrupted.
>
> the crash dump is good information but in this case the pc does not appear
> to be valid, so i don't see what's wrong yet.
>
> - erik
>