[ale] Thumb drive problem

[Horkan Smith]

It's a long shot, but ddrescue / dd_rescue might be able to survive the eject/reattach cycle; or be able to pick back up at the right spot after the re-attach w/ a logfile and the right switches.

later!
   horkan

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 07:52:49AM -0700, James Sumners via Ale wrote:
>I have a thumb drive that is causing me grief. When I mount the volume on
>it the device will eject and reattach after a second or two. If I try to
>`dd` the device to an image, a few megabytes will be read and then the
>device will eject and reattach. Has anyone experienced this situation
>before? If so, were you able to get around it to recover the data? How?
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