From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 00:38:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E8DB10656D9 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:38:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FF098FC22 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:38:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 92021 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2009 00:38:37 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=i/Dz9Jc9PnwFLAmhKxnaylZtohNaL6IsLzDJH3mc6u0HXMtCOWYFFku27p4QhLBHmciRMuaFhujAQ49D9w+HIiIijT4OaQ8QBJMpS6/0eViyd+jU+5emawwW0De5bLaWOhhgCu+XXS98GCHLESLp5ad+4ES5vu7zN4Agz92Q4/c= ; Received: from unknown (HELO napoleon.localnet) (mike.jeays@99.224.75.182 with plain) by smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Feb 2009 00:38:36 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: zKJz.2YVM1kLa82nLscVZzygdhPFg5iymCllhQxr5B8OAdqCy94ufNAhE3HAnTgtnw-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Mike Jeays To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:38:34 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27-9-generic; KDE/4.1.3; i686; ; ) References: <20090202165244.GB1012@dell1> <20090202214453.H3449@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902021938.35285.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Subject: Re: short-changed on SD card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:38:41 -0000 On February 2, 2009 06:13:16 pm Tim Judd wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Wojciech Puchar < > > wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > >> da1: 960MB (1967616 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 960C) > > > > it's something wrong with FreeBSD here, it gets detected as 1GB. > > it has nothing to do with filesystem on it. > > Nobody's blamed the SD/CF reader. > > I call dibs to blame the SD/CF reader. Isolate the problem to find the > culprit... > > Check the USB reader -- I'm curious to see if that fixes the problem. > > And FYI -- No matter the Heads/Sectors/Cylinders, there are ~2000000 > 512byte sectors, roughly equal to 1GB. > > If it's not the adapter, you got cheated in the purchase. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I think I would try dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1M without the count option, and see how many blocks it writes. You at least start with a clean slate, and can run fdisk and newfs, if you want a BSD-only device. Make sure you write on the right device! -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca