Re: Formatting a 2Gb MicroSD card

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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Sebastian Tennant wrote:
> Quoth "Bryn M. Reeves" <address@hidden>:
>>> Sebastian Tennant <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>  $ parted /dev/sdc print
>>>>  Disk /dev/sdc: 1016MB
>>>>  Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
>>>>  Partition Table: msdos
>>>>
>>>>  Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
>>>>   1      10.2kB  1016MB  1016MB  primary  fat16        lba
>>>>
>>>> Any hints/tips/pointers much appreciated.
>> Could you post the content of /proc/partitions with the card attached?
>    .
>    .
>    8    32     992512 sdc
>    8    33     992150 sdc1

The kernel thinks this is a 1GiB card (the units in partitions are 1KiB
blocks). Presumably it previously had a partition table that made sdc1 a
2GiB partition (the kernel allows this but as you saw spits "attempt to
access beyond end of device" messages when any I/O is submitted for the
nonexistant regions).

Since your phone agrees that it's a 1GiB card it sounds like you have a
mislabelled SD card - this isn't that unusual as there are unfortunately
a lot of fake and re-labelled cards floating around. I would return it
to the retailer and ask for a refund or replacement.

Regards,
Bryn.

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