On Sunday 11 April 2010 08:52:53 Rogier Wolff wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 03:29:13PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > I agree. In addition, it would be good to check whether the phone > > has this problem with _all_ memory cards or only those above a > > certain size. > > Or whatever other conditions that might be needed to trigger this bug > in the phone software.... It seems to be a firmware bug in some Sony devices - at least W800i and K750i (and apparently V800 or 802SE - but haven't found any reports about it, maybe it's rare). There are no problems in Windows as it does not access any sectors outside the partition. The "extra" space is visible only in Disk management. There are many discussions about this, when people think that their card has double capacity. They try to use it by repartitioning and they fail (data corruption in the second half). It has been reported with 64MB, 512MB and 1GB cards from SanDisk, Sony and Apacer: http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99973 http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=752455&page=1&pp=15 Some people report that they don't see the "extra" capacity - probably because they have a firmware without this bug. -- Ondrej Zary -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
