Obscure error: dd: failed to open: No medium found
This blog post was published 8 years ago and may or may not have aged well.
While reading please keep in mind that it may no longer be accurate or even relevant.
I got this error message when I wanted to use dd
to copy a raw image to a MicroSD card. You will see this message if you have unmounted the card with a file manager like Nautilus.
The fix:
Unmount the card via the terminal:
umount /dev/sdd1
The dd
command will work now.
Another variant of this error can be seen when using bmaptool
:
bmaptool: ERROR: cannot open destination file '/dev/sdd': [Errno 123] No medium found: '/dev/sdd'