FYI. I contacted SanDisk and they suggested that the 4.0GB Cruzer Mini drives I purchased (on eBay) were probably counterfeit. SanDisk requested the vendor IDs of the flash drives which I can see from Device Manager/Details and I just submitted those numbers to them, but I strongly suspect they are right and that these flash drives are counterfeit because both of them are pretty much useless and worthless.
This is the first time this has happened to me (that I know of). When I buy things off the net I search around for the best price and have not been thinking whether the item was counterfeit or not. So now I will see what happens. I hope my comments are not a bother. I thought some might find my experience of interest. Wayne Jr On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:13:54 -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 1/30/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 1/30/06, Wayne Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Sorry for the typos and the wrong link... (blush) :( >>> Here's the right link for the formatting program that I meant >>> to put in my original post: >>> http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html >>> >>> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:30:03 -0800, Wayne Jr wrote: >>>> Speaking of formatting stick drives, I picked up a couple of >>>> SanDisk 4.0GB Cruzer Minis on ebay for $150 + shipping >>>> (which I thought was an Ok deal since they are listed >>>> anywhere from about $250 to $300+ although I could have >>>> picked up a lot of 10 for $45 each if I wanted to mess around >>>> reselling them)... Anyway I >>>> got one for me and one for my wife who runs an apple >>>> Powerbook. Her computer had trouble recognizing it, so she >>>> reformatted it to MS- DOS (w/o asking my advice!)... Now, >>>> when you plug it into the computer it reads 1TB... I know >>>> that's not right... >>>> >> >>>> Windows-based Format Utility for HP Drive Key or DiskOnKey USB >>>> Device (It's supposed to work with non HP drives) >>>> >> First thing I notice is that 4GB is beyond the 2GB limit for a >> single >> partition on a strictly "MSDOS" file system. FAT16, that is. >> >> Don't know what else to say at this moment. >> > Something else to say: if the Mac is running OS-X it has fdisk. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > Last login: Tue Dec 27 17:55:48 2005 > Welcome to Darwin! > [whimbrel:~] carl% which fdisk > /usr/sbin/fdisk > [whimbrel:~] carl% > > Reading the man.page, I see that the OS-X fdisk has a bunch of added > features that the average Linux fdisk does not. > > carl > -- > carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
