On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 01:11:52PM -0500, Alan Corey wrote: > They aren't hard drives, it's a whole different process. They work > superficially the same because that's a layer designed on. If you go > to sdcard.org there are technical specifications and formatters for > Windows and Mac, like that's the whole world. > > I've seen formatting with hard disk tools work, I've also had better > luck formatting in cameras or phones. And many times scanning for bad > blocks causes a hard crash of the whole computer. I've got about 3 > USB memory sticks here about 10 years old that I don't dare to scan > again. But that in itself is odd, that for 10 years we haven't come > up with a better approach. There are hundreds of pages of PDFs on how > they work at http://www.sdcard.org but there seem to be limitations on > how you can use that information. Like that .org maybe should have > been a .com or .biz Despicable. > > But as we enter an era of solid state drives having proper utilities > becomes more important. And many of us experiment with rooted phones > with Linux on SD cards, and small single board computers like the > Raspberry Pi, Beagleboard, etc. using SD cards instead of hard drives. > > You have to accept this disclaimer before you can download their PDFs: > The information contained in the Simplified Specifications are > presented only as a standard specification for SD cards and SD > host/ancillary products and is provided "AS-IS" without any > representations or warranties of any kind. No responsibility is > assumed by the SD Group, SD-3C, LLC or the SD Card Association for any > damages, any infringements of patents or other right of the SD Group, > SD-3C, LLC, the SD Card Association or any third parties, which may > result from there use or any portion there of. No license is granted > by implication, estoppel or otherwise under any patent or other rights > of the SD Group, SD-3C, LLC, the SD Card Association or any third > party. Nothing herein shall be construed as an obligation by the SD > Group, the SD-3C, LLC or the SD Card Association to disclose or > distribute any technical information, know-how or other confidential > information to any third party. > > Ooops, I probably broke some law by posting that. :) I was never > interested in law school. > > -- > Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX >
This has nothing to do with OpenBSD. Please keep this trash off the list. -ml
