Robert Nichols wrote: > MHR wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert >> Nichols<rnicholsNOSPAM at 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?