microSD card detected with wrong size/capacity

[Matthew Carpenter]

Is there another device that shows up as a music device?  Likely this thumbdrive has two 
different endpoints that provide difference USB devices, and the protocol to access your 
iPhone's music through iTunes is different.  

On Tuesday, July 07, 2015 11:44:42 AM Lonni J Friedman via Linux-users wrote:
> 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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