[ale] attempt to access beyond end of device

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:57:42 -0400
<krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:

> > Disk /dev/sde: 1020 MB, 1020264960 bytes

(This is correct usage of MB, as base 10; MiB is base 2).

> > 29 heads, 28 sectors/track, 2454 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 812 * 512 = 415744 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> >
> > Could it be a limitation in my USB reader?
> >
> 
> To add insult to misery flash drive sizes are commonly given in Base
> 10 so
> 
> 2GB = 2,000,000,000 Bytes = 1.862645149 GiBytes
> 
> I think Linux will display GiBytes.

Is the MicroSD card for SDHC?  It could very well be that it is
attempting to read an SDHC card in a reader that can only read SD...
though I would think that it would fail entirely.

If that's not the case, it sounds like a bad batch o' cards with a wrong
label...

	--- Mike

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