As there was some discussion of fakes. At your own risk and if you
have access to Windows there are some good tools to low-level verify
either for a fake or bad bits on USB/SD storage:
"FakeFlashTest"
https://rmprepusb.com/tutorials/007-all-about-fake-sd-cards-and-usb-flash-drives/
"USB Flash
Am 13.06.22 um 11:27 schrieb Antony Stone:
Hi.
I just came across a favourable review of a new HP laptop based on AMD Ryzen.
I like the name they gave it :)
https://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=31205
Antony.
Hi,
reading the name of the laptop: "Dev One", I'd expect it to have Devuan
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 06:33:37PM -0700, Fred wrote:
>
> The f3probe utility says:
>
> Good news: The device /dev/sdb is the real thing
>
> And then it reports the same size as fdisk, 27.48GB usable even though the
> card is plainly marked 64GB.
So confirmed as a fake. Maybe worth checeking
Hi Fred,
Am Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:35:06PM -0700 schrieb Fred:
> I tried fdisk again with the same result.
>
> root@aragog:# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdb
> Command (m for help): n
> Partition type
>p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
>e extended (container for logical partitions)
>
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 02:14:15PM -0700, Fred wrote:
> > >
> > Hi,
> > I recall a lot of discussion about this on either this list or the
> > Debian list. If the card was an offbrand I would assume it was fraud
> > and would not have even asked here. However, the card is a SanDisk. The
> >
Hi.
I just came across a favourable review of a new HP laptop based on AMD Ryzen.
I like the name they gave it :)
https://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=31205
Antony.
--
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
You'll feel much better about things once you do.
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:09:31AM +0100, ael via Dng wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 06:33:37PM -0700, Fred wrote:
>
> So confirmed as a fake. Maybe worth checeking with fwrite and fread for
> a more thorough check.
s/fwrite/f3write and s/fread/f3read: typo corrections, of course.
ael
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 09:34:32AM +0200, Andreas Messer wrote:
>
> However, the best way to use SD-Cards in Linux only environments is
> to format them with f2fs file system. f2fs was developed by Samsung
> with internal behavior of embedded MMC memory devices in mind. Which
> is pretty the
