Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:56:19 -0500 From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: short-changed on SD card? Message-ID: <20090202175619.GD1012@dell1>
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According to Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> on Mon, 02/02/09 at 12:46:
>
> On Monday 02 February 2009 07:52:44 William Bulley wrote:
> > Recently purchased a brand new 2.0 GB secure digital (SD) card.
> >
> > When I plugged this into a USB dongle and plugged the USB dongle
> > into an available USB socket on my FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE system the
> > output from dmesg(8) reported this:
> >
> > da1: 960MB (1967616 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 960C)
> >
> > This is much closer to 1.0 GB than 2.0 GB so I at once wondered
> > if I had been scammed in my purchase of this brand new SD card.
> >
> > Once I'd mounted /dev/da1s1 on /mnt, the df(1) command also reported
> > 960 MB. I then copied a 300+ megabyte file onto /mnt and then ran
> > the df(1) command again. This time it reported 1.9 GB total and
> > 1.6 GB available. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? Am I going crazy?
>
> On a hunch, it's really 1G FAT, 1G HFS ("mac"). You could reformat it using
> fdisk/newfs.
That might be a good hunch, but the SD card itself just says "2.0 GB" on the
outside - no mention there or when I purchased it to have any Mac-ness.
I don't recall seeing anything Mac-ish when I ran the fdisk(8) command as
% fdisk da1
The output then seemed to correctly reflect that partition (slice) one (1)
was 960 MB in size. I tried later (once the system had recovered and the
fsck(8) had finished) to use fdisk(8) to put 1920 MB into slice one. But
that didn't seem to work. I marked all the other three slices as "UNUSED".
Is there any trick to using fdisk(8) that is hidden in the man page which
I evidently missed? I used the "-i" flag and it led me by the had through
each slice - I thought I did the "right" thing, but I was never able to
mount(8) the SD card after that, even though dmesg(8) reported "da1" as
being there. I kept getting "invalid parameter" or the like when I tried
mounting as I am used to:
# mount_msdosfs -l /dev/da1s1 /mnt
I also tried:
# mount_msdosfs -l /dev/da1 /mnt
But both versions failed. Finally, in desperation, I formatted the SD card
on a Windows XP laptop. Windows put it back into FAT shape (using the low
level - not the "quick" - format there) and gave it 960 MB, sigh... :-(
Regards,
web...
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William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu
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