MHR wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Robert
> Nichols wrote:
>> Sure. I'll try it as a small attachment here. It that doesn't
>> work, and I suspect it won't, I'll have to find some spot where
>> I can upload it. I don't have anything like that set up just now.
>>
>
> Got it - thanks.
Robert wrote:
>
> Robert Nichols wrote:
>> Robert wrote:
>>> Robert Nichols wrote:
The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure
out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk
(I have a shell script that does that in a pretty much brute force
wa
Robert Nichols wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>>
>> Robert Nichols wrote:
>>> The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure
>>> out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk
>>> (I have a shell script that does that in a pretty much brute force
>>> way.) and then reparti
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Robert
Nichols wrote:
>
> Sure. I'll try it as a small attachment here. It that doesn't
> work, and I suspect it won't, I'll have to find some spot where
> I can upload it. I don't have anything like that set up just now.
>
Got it - thanks.
One thing I noticed
Robert wrote:
Robert Nichols wrote:
The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure
out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk
(I have a shell script that does that in a pretty much brute force
way.) and then repartition and re-format the drive using that
geom
From: MHR
> I just got a new SanDisk 8GB flash drive, and, as usual, it came with
> the U3 software (for Windoze) on a "CD" partition and considerably
> less than 8GB on the disk partition. I put it into my WinXP portable
> and told U3 to delete itself, but I still can't get at the old U3 part
>
Robert Nichols wrote:
> MHR wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert
>> Nichols wrote:
>>
>>> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to
>>> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize
>>> the full 8029470208 bytes.
>>>
>>>
>> I was able
Robert Nichols wrote:
> MHR wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert
>> Nichols wrote:
>>> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to
>>> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize
>>> the full 8029470208 bytes.
>>>
>> I was able to do that.
>>
>> Then I
MHR wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert
> Nichols wrote:
>> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to
>> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize
>> the full 8029470208 bytes.
>>
>
> I was able to do that.
>
> Then I went back and looked at my Ki
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert
Nichols wrote:
>
> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to
> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize
> the full 8029470208 bytes.
>
I was able to do that.
Then I went back and looked at my Kingston - it has 5 "heads,
MHR wrote:
> Semi-OT?
>
> I just got a new SanDisk 8GB flash drive, and, as usual, it came with
> the U3 software (for Windoze) on a "CD" partition and considerably
> less than 8GB on the disk partition. I put it into my WinXP portable
> and told U3 to delete itself, but I still can't get at the
It's been a long time since i went back to the basic theory. The
simple truth is that the operating system has a way of reserving some
blocks on the storage media and besides the manufacturers use a
multiple of 1000 as opposed to 1024.
On 6/14/09, MHR wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:29 PM, MH
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:29 PM, MHR wrote:
> Semi-OT?
>
> I just got a new SanDisk 8GB flash drive, and, as usual, it came with
> the U3 software (for Windoze) on a "CD" partition and considerably
> less than 8GB on the disk partition. I put it into my WinXP portable
> and told U3 to delete itse
Semi-OT?
I just got a new SanDisk 8GB flash drive, and, as usual, it came with
the U3 software (for Windoze) on a "CD" partition and considerably
less than 8GB on the disk partition. I put it into my WinXP portable
and told U3 to delete itself, but I still can't get at the old U3 part
of the driv
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