Re: only 1GB

Mike <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On January 11, 2009, James wrote:
> It is a 2GB SD card so why does it look like 1GB in the card reader.
>
> sd 6:0:0:1: [sdd] 1990656 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.01 GB/972 MiB)
> sd 6:0:0:1: [sdd] Write Protect is off
> sd 6:0:0:1: [sdd] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sd 6:0:0:1: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 6:0:0:1: [sdd] 1990656 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.01 GB/972 MiB)
> sd 6:0:0:1: [sdd] Write Protect is off
> sd 6:0:0:1: [sdd] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sd 6:0:0:1: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through

a few thoughts

SDHC maybe the reader cannot suport this size card 

is it one of those secure SD and maybe there is a hidden partition , I've seen 
this with usb sticks 

Did you format it?

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