4GB Kingston CF card
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                    says: copyright 2014

24-Jun-2014
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  Out of the box:

    [root@toad-sl61 ~]# dosfsck -v /dev/sdb1
    dosfsck 3.0.9 (31 Jan 2010)
    dosfsck 3.0.9, 31 Jan 2010, FAT32, LFN
    Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
    Boot sector contents:
    System ID "MSDOS5.0"
    Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
           512 bytes per logical sector
         32768 bytes per cluster
          6288 reserved sectors
    First FAT starts at byte 3219456 (sector 6288)
             2 FATs, 32 bit entries
        487424 bytes per FAT (= 952 sectors)
    Root directory start at cluster 2 (arbitrary size)
    Data area starts at byte 4194304 (sector 8192)
        121728 data clusters (3988783104 bytes)
    63 sectors/track, 16 heads
          8128 hidden sectors
       7798832 sectors total
    Checking for unused clusters.
    Checking free cluster summary.
    Free cluster summary uninitialized (should be 121727)
    /dev/sdb1: 1 files, 1/121728 clusters



   [root@toad-sl61 ~]# fdisk  /dev/sdb

    WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
             switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
             sectors (command 'u').

    Command (m for help): p

    Disk /dev/sdb: 3997 MB, 3997163520 bytes
    128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 968 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x00000000

       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sdb1   *           2         969     3899416    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
    Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
         phys=(0, 128, 1) logical=(1, 1, 2)
    Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
         phys=(967, 127, 63) logical=(968, 15, 63)

    Command (m for help): q



  Use gParted on macbook VM
  delete existing partition
  create 256MiB fat16 partition

  check again from linux
  -> there now is a different number of head/sect/cyl  !!!???


    [root@toad-sl61 ~]# fdisk  /dev/sdb

    WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
             switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
             sectors (command 'u').

    Command (m for help): p

    Disk /dev/sdb: 3997 MB, 3997163520 bytes
    195 heads, 34 sectors/track, 1177 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 6630 * 512 = 3394560 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x0006de95

       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sdb1               1          80      262144    6  FAT16

 And the number of reserved sectors is 8 instead of 1

    [root@toad-sl61 ~]# dosfsck -v /dev/sdb1
    dosfsck 3.0.9 (31 Jan 2010)
    dosfsck 3.0.9, 31 Jan 2010, FAT32, LFN
    Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
    Boot sector contents:
    System ID "mkdosfs"
    Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
           512 bytes per logical sector
          4096 bytes per cluster
             8 reserved sectors
    First FAT starts at byte 4096 (sector 8)
             2 FATs, 16 bit entries
        131072 bytes per FAT (= 256 sectors)
    Root directory starts at byte 266240 (sector 520)
           512 root directory entries
    Data area starts at byte 282624 (sector 552)
         65467 data clusters (268152832 bytes)
    62 sectors/track, 123 heads
             0 hidden sectors
        524288 sectors total
    Checking for unused clusters.
    /dev/sdb1: 58 files, 155/65467 clusters

  Disconnect - Reconnect to VM
  Reformat

    [root@toad-sl61 ~]# mkdosfs -f 2 -F 16 -R 1 -S 512 -s 16 -r 512 -v -n "CMX_CF07" /dev/sdb1
    mkfs.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
    /dev/sdb1 has 123 heads and 62 sectors per track,
    hidden sectors 0x0800;
    logical sector size is 512,
    using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 524288 sectors;
    drive number 0x80;
    filesystem has 2 16-bit FATs and 16 sectors per cluster.
    FAT size is 128 sectors, and provides 32749 clusters.
    There is 1 reserved sector.
    Root directory contains 512 slots and uses 32 sectors.
    Volume ID is 5238cc43, volume label CMX_CF07   .


    [root@toad-sl61 ~]# dosfsck -v /dev/sdb1
    dosfsck 3.0.9 (31 Jan 2010)
    dosfsck 3.0.9, 31 Jan 2010, FAT32, LFN
    Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
    Boot sector contents:
    System ID "mkfs.fat"
    Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
           512 bytes per logical sector
          8192 bytes per cluster
             1 reserved sector
    First FAT starts at byte 512 (sector 1)
             2 FATs, 16 bit entries
         65536 bytes per FAT (= 128 sectors)
    Root directory starts at byte 131584 (sector 257)
           512 root directory entries
    Data area starts at byte 147968 (sector 289)
         32749 data clusters (268279808 bytes)
    62 sectors/track, 123 heads
          2048 hidden sectors
        524288 sectors total
    Checking for unused clusters.
    /dev/sdb1: 1 files, 0/32749 clusters


  from Windows

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    268,279,808 bytes  (255 MB) capacity
     36,970,496 bytes (35.2 MB) used