[ale] USB pen drive killed?

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:07:19PM -0500, Pete Hardie wrote:
> All,
> 
> I was playing around with my USB pendrive, and tried to mount  it on my 
> machine, and typo'ed the /dev entry, so mount was frozen.  So I rebooted 
> the machine. When the machine returned, during the boot up, the drive 
> activity light went into rapid blinking for 30 seconds or more, then went 
> out.  The drive appears to not respond fully on this maching any more.
> 
> Anyone know if I did a Bad Thing(tm) in leaving it attached when rebooting? 
> Am I SOL and killed the drive?  Or is it just something with the locam box 
> USB drivers that I bollixed up?  Inquiring minds want to know!

Rebooting should not kill a drive.  It could be a cheap drive.