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| From | Arno <me@privacy.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage |
| Subject | Re: formatting flash drive |
| Date | 2011-11-07 20:47 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <9hquelF6kjU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <fa4470fd-a950-4cce-9597-969374c21439@u13g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> <7in6a750hhrq3m3d70nihgtn4rndjbrvi9@4ax.com> <243522db-ac1e-403f-8160-51a2db81e5b2@gy7g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <9ghhtoFsv2U1@mid.individual.net> <84776c92-ad3a-4566-b477-d0b12e734d9c@n13g2000vbv.googlegroups.com> |
myfathersson <licensedtoquill@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > This is almost definitely a 32 gig HongKong fake card situation. there > are lots of them around. I kinda knew it when I bought it and now the > card has died completely! NOTHING will format it or let it show up on > a PC or Mac > What I was wondering was how they manage to get the fake card to show > up as a 32 gig card in the first place? (academic troll, of course) This needs a firmware modification on the card that makes it report a larger size to the computer when queried. The computer does not test the size, it asks for it via ATA/USB(really SCSI) command. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans
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Re: formatting flash drive myfathersson <licensedtoquill@gmail.com> - 2011-10-22 20:34 -0700
Re: formatting flash drive "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-10-23 15:01 +1100
Re: formatting flash drive myfathersson <licensedtoquill@gmail.com> - 2011-11-07 10:04 -0800
Re: formatting flash drive Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-11-07 20:47 +0000
Re: formatting flash drive myfathersson <licensedtoquill@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 07:10 -0800
Re: formatting flash drive Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-12-01 01:34 +0000
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