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From: Alexia Death <alexiadeath@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem: non-SDHC 2GB SD cards are unreadable
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:32:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804140032.22110.alexiadeath@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080413214211.3730e977@core>

On Sunday 13 April 2008 23:42:11 Alan Cox wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card#Compatibility_issues_wit
> >h_2_GB_and_larger_cards tells me that this is the result of a hack due to
> > the nature of 2GB cards.
> >
> > Are there any plans to make 2GB SD cards work? I doubt I'm the only one
> > with such 2GB SD cards(and a camera) and Id be royally screwed right
> > about now if I did not have my photobank and an option to use it as a
> > copy over point...
>
> Mounting it with -o loop ought to work around this if the problem is
> purely media block size. That is probably the right answer anyway but the
> solution ought to be managed more elegantly for the user.

It seems the issue is a bit more complicated. Tried it with -o loop. It did 
mount but the contents was binary garbage... Strangely different binary 
garbage at each mount...  

--
Best,
Alexia

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-13 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-13 20:26 Problem: non-SDHC 2GB SD cards are unreadable Alexia Death
2008-04-13 20:42 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-13 21:32   ` Alexia Death [this message]
2008-04-14  0:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-14  4:49   ` Alexia Death
2008-04-14  6:48     ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-14 11:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-14 12:40         ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-15 23:23         ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-16  2:09           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-16  2:49             ` Roger Heflin
2008-04-14 16:11     ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-14  6:08   ` Alexia Death
2008-04-14  9:03     ` Wander Winkelhorst

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