On Sunday 11 April 2010 20:45:16 Alan Stern wrote: > 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? I don't know - everything I read was from Windows users. I even don't know if there's a non-buggy firmware for this V800-802SE. Found some report about W800i: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-usb-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg16086.html and C702: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=68387 The query: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22sony+eri%22+%22memory+stick%22+%22reset+full+speed%22 -- 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
