something is going on over there
According to Copying an operating system image to an SD card using Mac OS steps are
diskutil list
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/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *32.0 GB disk4
1: DOS_FAT_32 NO NAME 32.0 GB disk4s1
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Take disk identifier and unmount disk