On 15 January 2012 22:23, Pete Travis <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jan 15, 2012 2:17 PM, "Ian Malone" <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 15 January 2012 19:59, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On 01/15/2012 11:45 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> >> >> The only reason I >> >> haven't got a new one yet is 2GB ones are hard to find these days. >> > >> > >> > Can you borrow another card (any size) and see if either Linux or >> > Windows >> > can deal with it? If so, it's the card. If not it's probably a >> > hardware >> > issue because having both versions of the software fail in the exact >> > same >> > way is Highly Unlikely. >> > >> >> Oh yes, other ones work, I'm just interested to see if I can find out >> what's happened to it, also I don't have spares to hand for what I >> need it for. This 48MB thing in particular is taunting me, if there >> was *nothing* showing up then I could move on with my life. >> > As part of your experiment, you should dd an image of the card and examine > it with testdisk and photorec. Thanks for the suggestion, obviously this only works on the machine that sees a 48MB device (via USB I get this instead: dd: opening `/dev/sdc': No medium found). Haven't used photorec or testdisk before, but they fail to find anything (partition, filesystem, files). On closer inspection of the image it appears to be a repeating 512bytes block, appears fairly random and I haven't tried to make any sense of it. I suspect that any solution to getting access to >48MB is going to involve ioctls (i.e. not block access), but this repeating block thing suggests that it's actually a quirk of the reader I'm seeing and not any contents of the flash card itself. -- imalone -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
