Re: Unusable system during dd to USB block device

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6725%twc.com@localhost>]

> On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, Thomas Mueller wrote:

> > I tried to dd to /dev/sd2 (or whatever the number was), and it looked
> > good on the screen, no error message, but nothing happened on the USB stick.

> 3 possibilities here:

> a) You wrote to the wrong device.
> b) You now have a copy of the input file in /dev
> c) _Very_ exotic HW issue. (You write to the device; the device says "write OK"
>     but, it doesn't actually write anything. I've known this to happen on some
>     models of eMMC/SDHC cards.)

> RVP

Or a fourth possibility, /dev/sd2 was the wrong name even if it was the correct USB stick.

What would be the correct way for NetBSD?  

Tom