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   prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 02:35:35 JST prettygood

   I will never be comfortable using /dev/sda as a target for dd no matter how long I use NVME drives.

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     vivi (vivi@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 02:46:28 JST vivi

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     @prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer non of these words are in the bible

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     Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:16:10 JST Reid :ablobcatattention:

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     @prettygood haha, `dd of=/dev/sd*` go brr
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:16:14 JST prettygood

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     • rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually
     @rk real
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     rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually (rk@mastodon.well.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:16:15 JST rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually

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     @prettygood

     THEY’RE NOT SCSI. EVERYTHING IS A LIE.

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     ARGVMI~1.PIF (argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:16:18 JST ARGVMI~1.PIF

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     @prettygood

     Using dd makes me nervous in general.

     Maybe I should start using some GUI program to write disk images…

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:16:36 JST prettygood

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     • ARGVMI~1.PIF
     @argv_minus_one KDE's image writer is nice when I'm being lazy
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     vekkq (vekkq@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:16:44 JST vekkq

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     @prettygood I just use cp for devices~

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     thedæmon (thedaemon@snac.9front.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:16:47 JST thedæmon

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     I panic and verify like 3 times when I'm doing that.
     
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     Cursed Silicon (cursedsilicon@social.restless.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:23:59 JST Cursed Silicon

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     • rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually
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     @argv_minus_one @rk @prettygood As I Understand It (poorly)

     They re-mapped it to all be in /dev/sdX after the SATA drivers in the kernel just kind of took over from IDE as the primary "type of hard disk" likely to be encountered. I think somewhere in the 2.6 kernel series?

     That's also why the old driver has "DEPRECATED" everywhere

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     ARGVMI~1.PIF (argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:24:00 JST ARGVMI~1.PIF

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     • rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually

     @rk

     Yeah, what's up with that? PATA used /dev/hd* but SATA for some reason uses /dev/sd* instead.

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:24:35 JST mhoye

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     @prettygood Anxiety and triple checking every single time.

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:24:35 JST prettygood

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     • mhoye

     @mhoye dmesg | tail in the terminal immediately after plugging in the Thing so I am confident I know where Thing is.

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     rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually (rk@mastodon.well.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:28:28 JST rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually

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     @CursedSilicon @argv_minus_one @prettygood

     IDE is “integrated drive electronics”…They all have integrated electronics! ALL DRIVES ARE IDE I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL

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     screwlisp (screwlisp@gamerplus.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:28:44 JST screwlisp

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     • mhoye

     @mhoye
     unplug and plug in the device a couple times while watching hardware messages, until you feel confident that it will be your own fault when you nuke an irreplaceable device
     @prettygood

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:35:37 JST mhoye

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     @prettygood I set up a thing where I just run dmesg perpetually on tty11, so I can always watch stuff like that happen.

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     1-bit machine goth (ludonaut@timetheft.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 06:55:42 JST 1-bit machine goth

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     • mhoye

     @prettygood @mhoye same, even when i use /dev/disk/by-id/nvme... i still double and triple check lsblk and dmesg, the anxiety never really goes away

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     penguin42 (penguin42@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 10:53:58 JST penguin42

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     @prettygood I'm confused, certainly for me on Linux, my NVMe drives appear as /dev/nvme* rather than sd*. And I try and use /dev/disk/by-path or id or label or anything to avoid using /dev/sd* since it is slightly clearer which drive it is.

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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 10:54:52 JST prettygood

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     • penguin42
     @penguin42 sure, that's the point. It used to be that /dev/sda was your primary boot disk when we were all using SATA attached disks. And those dev nodes didn't always exist, especially before the v4 kernels.
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     prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 11:21:23 JST prettygood

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     @penguin42 yeah I'm showing my age with this post for sure.
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     penguin42 (penguin42@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 11:21:24 JST penguin42

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     @prettygood Oh yeh, way back they were /dev/hd* when they were IDE compatible interfaces, and in VMs you often get lots of other things (like /dev/vda for virtio block devices)

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     Z̈oé ⛵ (uint8_t@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Nov-2025 23:06:03 JST Z̈oé ⛵

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     @prettygood lsblk, sudo chmod 666 the target, double check with lsblk, then run dd without sudo 🙂

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