Re: [PATCH] Forcing SCSI capacity for broken SD Card readers

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On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:
>> Forcefully extending partition boundaries and I/O block ranges was
>> just what I had in mind. My card reader was listed as being compatible
>> with card >1GB, and I suspected that this was only verified under
>> Windows. I knew that Windows believed in the partition table more
>> strongly than into device boundaries, so I figured that would probably
>> work. And it did.
>
> Just out of curiousity, what happens if you try to repartition and
> format a card using this reader under Windows?  Does it restrict the
> total available size to 1 GB?  If it does, doesn't that indicate the
> reader _isn't_ compatible with large cards?

I turns out windows _does_ respect the values reported by the device.
However, not sure if this is a new thing in Windows 7.

So from that perspective, the card reader isn't >1GB-ready. But from
another perspective, it is compatible, namely the practical
perspective -- when sending the right USB commands you get a 2GB card
that is written to correctly.
-- 
Fruhwirth Clemens http://clemens.endorphin.org
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