I find it's even weirder than I thought. And I don't think it has anything to do with plugging into my roomie's camera. Instead it may have to do with updates to Ubuntu.
I have two identical MMC flash cards bought at the same time. I only plugged one of them into her camera. But now both show up as 4GB on my Ubuntu 7.04. I have another computer, with Ubuntu 8.10. It shows both flash cards as 2GB. Also interesting is that the Ubuntu 7.04 computer fails to mount the MMC cards, and refuses to partition them. It says they are read-only. The Ubuntu 8.10 card has no problem with any of this and will happily write them. The Ubuntu 7.04 computer used to read these cards without trouble. I can only guess that it was a recent update that broke it. desktop laptop Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 8.10 report 4GB report 2GB read-only read-write fail mount mount no problem -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown > fdisk -l > > Your partition table has been corrupted > > -- > Larry Price > http://industrialintellect.com > > > On Jan 30, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Allen Brown <abr...@peak.org> wrote: > >> I plugged my 2GB MMC card into my roommates camera and now >> it shows up on my computer as a 4GB card and will no longer >> mount. Interestingly my camera still recognizes it. But it >> appears something has been overwritten with incorrect info. >> >> Is there a way to fix this other than buying a new card? >> -- >> Allen Brown abrown at peak.org >> http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ >> A modest man, who has much to be modest about (On Clement Atlee) >> --- Sir Winston Churchill >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> euglug@euglug.org >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
