From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 12:36:17 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 E8548106566B for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:36:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from web@umich.edu) Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803568FC08 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:36:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from web@umich.edu) Received: FROM dell1 (Unknown [141.211.15.39]) BY hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 49883A40.3A13.19520 ; 3 Feb 2009 07:36:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 07:34:45 -0500 From: William Bulley To: Tim Judd Message-ID: <20090203123445.GC6430@dell1> Mail-Followup-To: Tim Judd , Wojciech Puchar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Wojciech Puchar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 12:36:18 -0000 According to Tim Judd on Mon, 02/02/09 at 18:13: > > 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. This is a FANTASTIC suggestion - never occurred to me. I will have to try a different device with the same 2.0 GB card. Thanks! > And FYI -- No matter the Heads/Sectors/Cylinders, there are ~2000000 512byte > sectors, roughly equal to 1GB. Yep. > If it's not the adapter, you got cheated in the purchase. Thanks again. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu