microSD card detected with wrong size/capacity

[Lonni J Friedman]

Yes, its not a partitioning issue.  The size of the device is mis-reported.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:43 AM, The Small Box Admin via Linux-users
<linux-users at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> Did you look at it with gparted?  Maybe some weird partitioning scheme on
> it.
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Lonni J Friedman via Linux-users
> <linux-users at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>>
>> I've got a weird one here.  A microSD card which came with a junky old
>> Android phone claims to be 4GB on its label, however there's some
>> weird marketing nonsense about how "3GB reserved for music".  When I
>> plug the card into a reader attached to a linux box, its always
>> detected as a 1GB card:
>> [3181684.541224] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic  STORAGE
>> DEVICE   0207 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
>> [3181684.541593] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
>> [3181685.004787] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdg] 1934848 512-byte logical blocks:
>> (990 MB/944 MiB)
>>
>>
>> I'm guessing that there's something weird going on with the card that
>> hides 3GB from the OS somehow.  Has anyone run into this before?  Any
>> tips on how to unhide the missing 3GB?
>>
>> thanks
>>
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