Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 07:37:05 -0500 From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> To: Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: short-changed on SD card? Message-ID: <20090203123705.GD6430@dell1>
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According to Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@rogers.com> on Mon, 02/02/09 at 19:38: > > 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! So you don't think the "bad card reader" suggestion is relevant? I will also try this approach. Thanks for all the feedback. Now, I've got some avenues of testing to work through. Later... Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu
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