The ebay listing says Chino, not China. Like, in California. On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 7:30 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:45:37 +0900 > Bryan Linton <[email protected]> dijo: > > > Counterfeit USB flash drives are sometimes sold with > > claims of having higher capacities than they actually > > have. These are typically low capacity USB drives which > > are modified so that they emulate larger capacity drives > > (for example, a 2 GB drive being marketed as a 64 GB > > drive). > > Aha! > > It turns out that f3 is in the Ubuntu repos, so a couple minutes later > it was ready to roll. The command is 'f3probe': > > sudo f3probe /dev/sdd > Probe finished, recovering blocks... Done > Bad news: The device `/dev/sdd' is a counterfeit of type limbo > You can "fix" this device using the following command: > f3fix --last-sec=66150399 /dev/sdd > Device geometry: > *Usable* size: 31.54 GB (66150400 blocks) > Announced size: 234.38 GB (491520000 blocks) > Module: 256.00 GB (2^38 Bytes) > Approximate cache size: 0.00 Byte (0 blocks), need-reset=yes > Physical block size: 512.00 Byte (2^9 Bytes) > Probe time: 1'07" > > So there we have it. Both drives will soon be on their way back to > China with complaints filed with eBay. > > Now that I know the truth I looked at the packaging. The only thing in > writing is a heavy paper folded through the blister pack. Reading > through it there is not one word about how big the drive is. There is a > round sticker on the drive itself that says '256G,' but that could > easily have been added by the cons. All they had to do was have the > paper and sticker printed, pop the blister pack apart and apply them, > and place the listing on eBay. > > And considering that the goods say nothing about the size I can guess > what will happen when eBay gets my complaint. The seller will insist > that they never said the drive was 256GB. Well, we'll see what happens. > > Thanks a million for bringing this up! > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
