short-changed on SD card?

[William Bulley]

According to Mike Jeays <mike.jeays at rogers.com> on Mon, 02/02/09 at 19:38:
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> I think I would try dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1M
> without the count option, and see how many blocks it writes. You at least 
> start with a clean slate, and can run fdisk and newfs, if you want a BSD-only 
> device. Make sure you write on the right device!

So you don't think the "bad card reader" suggestion is relevant?

I will also try this approach.  Thanks for all the feedback.  Now,
I've got some avenues of testing to work through.  Later...

Regards,

web...

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William Bulley                     Email: web at umich.edu