microSD card detected with wrong size/capacity

[Lonni J Friedman]

its not a thumb drive.  Its literally just a microSD.  the only thing
that the OS (rightfully) detects when inserted is the microSD with the
incorrect size/capacity.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> On Tuesday, July 07, 2015 11:44:42 AM Lonni J Friedman via Linux-users
> wrote:
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>> Yes, its not a partitioning issue. The size of the device is mis-reported.
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>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:43 AM, The Small Box Admin via Linux-users
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>> <linux-users at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
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>> > Did you look at it with gparted? Maybe some weird partitioning scheme on
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>> > it.
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>> > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Lonni J Friedman via Linux-users
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>> > <linux-users at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
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>> >> I've got a weird one here. A microSD card which came with a junky old
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>> >> Android phone claims to be 4GB on its label, however there's some
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>> >> weird marketing nonsense about how "3GB reserved for music". When I
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>> >> plug the card into a reader attached to a linux box, its always
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>> >> detected as a 1GB card:
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>> >> [3181684.541224] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE
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>> >> DEVICE 0207 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
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>> >> [3181684.541593] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
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>> >> [3181685.004787] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdg] 1934848 512-byte logical blocks:
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>> >> (990 MB/944 MiB)
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>> >> I'm guessing that there's something weird going on with the card that
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>> >> hides 3GB from the OS somehow. Has anyone run into this before? Any
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>> >> tips on how to unhide the missing 3GB?
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>> >>
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>> >> thanks
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