MHR wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert
> Nichols<rnicholsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to
>> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize
>> the full 8029470208 bytes.
>>
>
> I was able to do that.
>
> Then I went back and looked at my Kingston - it has 5 "heads," 32 s/t
> and 99212 "cylinders."
>
> Now the question becomes, if I try that on the Sandisk, will it trash
> the drive altogether, or would I still be able to use it, or would
> that fail because there really isn't that much space on the "drive?"
The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure
out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk
(I have a shell script that does that in a pretty much brute force
way.) and then repartition and re-format the drive using that
geometry. I've never experienced any problem with that.
--
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Do NOT delete it.
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