Robert Nichols wrote:
MHR wrote:
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert NicholsrnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net wrote:
If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize the full 8029470208 bytes.
I was able to do that.
Then I went back and looked at my Kingston - it has 5 "heads," 32 s/t and 99212 "cylinders."
Now the question becomes, if I try that on the Sandisk, will it trash the drive altogether, or would I still be able to use it, or would that fail because there really isn't that much space on the "drive?"
The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk (I have a shell script that does that in a pretty much brute force way.) and then repartition and re-format the drive using that geometry. I've never experienced any problem with that.
That's interesting. Would you consider sharing your script?