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   From: David Aldred    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: 2Gig SD card will not fill   
   Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:12:18 +0000   
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   Toby Newman wrote:   
      
   > I have a 2Gig SD card. When I put it in my PDA it shows 1206MB free of   
   > 1934MB.   
      
   So it's already got 728Mb of data ....   
   >    
   > However, when I mount it and try to copy a 700MB file to it, after about   
   > 350MB have been copied I get the error:   
   >    
   > Could not write file /foo/baa.zip.   
   > Disk full.   
   > [OK]   
      
   ....and bombs out at around 1Gb.   
      
   Have you ever been able to get 2Gb onto it?   And did you get it from   
   somewhere reputable?   
      
   It's just that there are cards around which have been faked to appear bigger   
   than they actually are.   See   
   http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/Fake_Memory_Cards   
      
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   David Aldred   
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