[Gta04-owner] Device bricked/broken? - SOLVED

[Hermann Schwärzler]

Hello

On 03/13/2013 12:13 AM, John Ogness wrote:
[...]

> Try wiping the "broken" SD-card clean:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx
[...]
> In all cases (for me), writing zero's to the entire SD-card, then
> repartitioning and reformatting allowed me to boot from it again. I
> realize this sounds like black magic, but it worked for me. The issue
> was never important enough for me to investigate the problem.
> 
> It may be enough just to wipe the first 4K:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=4096 count=1

This is what the makesd-script already does:

dd if=/dev/zero of=$DEV bs=1024 count=1024

I will try if zero-ing the whole card does any good.

Greetings
Hermann