From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 12:38:38 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 557E6106564A for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:38:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from web@umich.edu) Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F328FC08 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:38:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from web@umich.edu) Received: FROM dell1 (Unknown [141.211.15.39]) BY tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 49883ACC.9CFBB.2560 ; 3 Feb 2009 07:38:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 07:37:05 -0500 From: William Bulley To: Mike Jeays Message-ID: <20090203123705.GD6430@dell1> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Jeays , 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: 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 12:38:38 -0000 According to Mike Jeays 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