[atlas] BADMD-APP error for v3 probe #25855

On 20 Nov 2023, at 14:54, Robert Story wrote:

> On Mon 2023-11-20 13:03:51-0800 Hans wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to resurrect a v3 probe that had a status of "Bad
>> Firmware". I did the usual:
>> [...]
>> Is there anything that I can do to resurrect this probe? I'm not
>> afraid to TFTP...
>
> Hi Hans,
>
> Check out this thread from earlier this year on this exact topic:
>
> https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/2023-August/005535.html
>
> Regards,
> Robert

Thanks Robert. I spent quite a bit of time reading the mailing list archives before posting, but hadn't read that entire thread.

I tried two different "silly" formats for the USB drive:

 - APFS
 - dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX ... (this took quite some time and definitely qualifies as unrecognizable)

Neither option worked, and I'm getting the exact same BADMD-APP BADMD-KERNEL errors in the SOS log.

Hans