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Memory stick

Khannie · 2008-03-04 17:11:35

I bought a pro duo memory stick off ebay. It's a 4G stick that's marked as 8G (I got my money back). The 4G part works, but the PSP (and df) recognise it as 8G when it's really only 4G. What I was wondering is: Is there a unix tool that will help me to mark the stick as (correctly) only 4G? Testdisk recognises that the…

04-03-2008 06:11PM

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I bought a pro duo memory stick off ebay. It's a 4G stick that's marked as 8G (I got my money back). The 4G part works, but the PSP (and df) recognise it as 8G when it's really only 4G.

What I was wondering is: Is there a unix tool that will help me to mark the stick as (correctly) only 4G?

Testdisk recognises that the memory stick is only 4G.

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#2 05-03-2008 01:36AM

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blockdev should be able to help you, its pretty low level stuff tho!

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#3 05-03-2008 12:11PM

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Hmmmm. Blockdev seems to only have get options.

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#4 05-03-2008 01:02PM

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So it does, mine has some set options but none that are of any use to you. Ah well, worth a try. Why cant you just make a 4gig partition on the block device?

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#5 31-03-2008 04:00PM

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Just got back from holidays. That's a good idea actually. I wonder how the PSP will deal with that. I'll try it later and report back.

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