Bricked flash drive with no size

Question

I have a bricked usb stick Kingston DT101 G2. I tried the solutions I found on the net without success. The problem seems to be that the capacity is reported as 0 (and not less than actual as in other questions). (Although I don't know a command to explicitly query the capacity.)

Sticking it in, /dev/sdd appears but /dec/sdd1 does not appear.

gparted/parted/fdisk don't recognize it. e.g.

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdd
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdd: No such file or directory

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$ sudo dd count=1 bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd && sync
dd: error writing '/dev/sdd': No space left on device
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 0.000316047 s, 0.0 kB/s

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$ ls -l /dev/sdd
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 48 Jan 30 13:45 /dev/sdd`

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$ sudo xxd -l 10 /dev/sdd
$

_{^{(i.e. nothing)}}

$ sudo smartctl -i -d scsi /dev/sdd
smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.4.0-109-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               GENERIC
Product:              USB Mass Storage
Revision:             1.00
scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=4 offset=4 bd_len=0
scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=4 offset=4 bd_len=0
Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.`

[Edit]

• sudo lsblk: no mention of sdd.

Output of lsusb -v (relevant portion only) Note that it reports 2GB instead of the actual 16GB.

Bus 001 Device 022: ID 0930:6544 Toshiba Corp. TransMemory-Mini / Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Stick (2GB)
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass         0 
  bDeviceProtocol         0 
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x0930 Toshiba Corp.
  idProduct          0x6544 TransMemory-Mini / Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Stick (2GB)
  bcdDevice            1.00
  iManufacturer           1 
  iProduct                2 
  iSerial                 3 
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength           32
    bNumInterfaces          1
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0 
    bmAttributes         0x80
      (Bus Powered)
    MaxPower              200mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           2
      bInterfaceClass         8 Mass Storage
      bInterfaceSubClass      6 SCSI
      bInterfaceProtocol     80 Bulk-Only
      iInterface              0 
      Endpoint Descriptor:
    bLength                 7
    bDescriptorType         5
    bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
    bmAttributes            2
      Transfer Type            Bulk
      Synch Type               None
      Usage Type               Data
    wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
    bInterval             255
      Endpoint Descriptor:
    bLength                 7
    bDescriptorType         5
    bEndpointAddress     0x02  EP 2 OUT
    bmAttributes            2
      Transfer Type            Bulk
      Synch Type               None
      Usage Type               Data
    wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  1x 512 bytes
    bInterval             255