<div dir="ltr">Finally made it home where I have access to more computers. It seems the thumb drive no longer works in USB 3.0 "Super Speed" mode. I attached it to an old USB 2.0 port and was able to successfully clone the drive via `dd`. Whew!<div><br></div><div>Two things learned during this:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Try a USB 2.0 port if you experience this early ejection issue.</div><div>2. Disks "encrypted" via macOS's Disk Utility can be cloned via `dd if=<drive> of=file.dmg` and then mounted to get around the encryption. Not cool.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 1:19 AM, James Sumners <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">Not able to try another computer right now, but will as soon as I can. I fear it is the controller :-/</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><div>On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 18:25 TheSmokintbird via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="auto"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Have you tried more than one computer?</div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">How about an OTG cable on your phone?</div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">If you are seeing the same problem with multiple computers...</div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">I would personally try throwing it in the freezer for a couple hours to chill it out.</div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">If it's a heat related problem it might buy you enough time to image, and if it's a solder or physical board problem it will either work or not, but shouldn't do the same cycling problem you have seen.</div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">If it still cycles, it is probably the memory controller and will likely not be recoverable... unless the data is worth the several hundred dollars it would cost to pay for data recovery (<a href="http://myharddrivedied.com" target="_blank">myharddrivedied.com</a>)</div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Smokintbird </div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><br>Keybase.io/smokintbird<br><br>"...better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln</div></div></div></div>
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