On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Ondrej Zary wrote: > 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. Then you don't want your new flag to apply to the non-buggy firmware. You'll have to figure out a way to verify this. Does the non-buggy firmware have a different device revision value? Alan Stern -- 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
