On February 2, 2009 06:13:16 pm Tim Judd wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Wojciech Puchar < > > woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > >> da1: 960MB (1967616 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 960C) > > > > it's something wrong with FreeBSD here, it gets detected as 1GB. > > it has nothing to do with filesystem on it. > > Nobody's blamed the SD/CF reader. > > I call dibs to blame the SD/CF reader. Isolate the problem to find the > culprit... > > Check the USB reader -- I'm curious to see if that fixes the problem. > > And FYI -- No matter the Heads/Sectors/Cylinders, there are ~2000000 > 512byte sectors, roughly equal to 1GB. > > If it's not the adapter, you got cheated in the purchase. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
I think I would try dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1M without the count option, and see how many blocks it writes. You at least start with a clean slate, and can run fdisk and newfs, if you want a BSD-only device. Make sure you write on the right device! -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
