256MB Transcend 80x CF card --------------------------- left by Pawel (no known content) 17-mar-2014 ----------- From Linux [root@toad-sl61 ~]# dosfsck -v /dev/sdb1 dosfsck 3.0.9 (31 Jan 2010) dosfsck 3.0.9, 31 Jan 2010, FAT32, LFN open: No such file or directory [philippe@toad-sl61 ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_toadsl61-lv_root 16G 3.9G 11G 27% / tmpfs 947M 568K 947M 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 485M 74M 386M 17% /boot /dev/sdb 5.4M 0 5.4M 0% /media/405A-D3A4 [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: 259 MB, 259080192 bytes 8 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1020 cylinders Units = cylinders of 496 * 512 = 253952 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 Command (m for help): q [root@toad-sl61 ~]# dosfsck -v /dev/sdb 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 2048 bytes per cluster 1 reserved sector First FAT starts at byte 512 (sector 1) 2 FATs, 12 bit entries 4608 bytes per FAT (= 9 sectors) Root directory starts at byte 9728 (sector 19) 512 root directory entries Data area starts at byte 26112 (sector 51) 2737 data clusters (5605376 bytes) 32 sectors/track, 64 heads 0 hidden sectors 11000 sectors total Checking for unused clusters. /dev/sdb: 0 files, 0/2737 clusters Note that there is no partition table. The whole card seems to be one partition, and only of a fraction (5MB) of the CF size (256MB). From Windows Windows properties think this is a 5.34 MB disk Windows Explorer shows it as empty But one cannot copy even a 1KB file to it.