[clug] Memory Stick Intrigue

[Robert Cohen]

Ive heard of dodgy sticks, that report that they are big, but in reality 
are much smaller.
If you write to them, later data overwrites the earlier data.

Not saying that this is what these are, but if theres something funny 
about them, its a possibility.

On 17/12/10 5:17 PM, Owen wrote:
> I bought 4 memsticks from Dealextreme, (Hong Kong based)
>
> On each were two files, one 1Gb the other 880 Mb
>
> file reports the type as "data"
> Hexeditor shows nothing interpretable
> strings throws nothing intelligible.
>
> As they were all the same files, I guess they may well just have been
> test files dumped on the sticks.
>
> I am quite happy with the above explanation, but wonder if there are
> other explanations, chinese version of wikileaks!
>
> I have reformatted 2 of the memsticks and they are normal , but before
> that, here is the output of fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sdc1: 2002 MB, 2002223104 bytes
> 62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1017 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 3844 * 512 = 1968128 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x6f20736b
>
> This doesn't look like a partition table
> Probably you selected the wrong device.
>
>       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdc1p1   ?      202429      499388   570754815+  72  Unknown
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>       phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(202428, 43, 11)
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
>       phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(499387, 30, 51)
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sdc1p2   ?       43884      547534   968014120   65  Novell
>       Netware 386 Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings
>       (non-Linux?): phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(43883, 52, 47)
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
>       phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(547533, 14, 42)
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sdc1p3   ?      486442      990091   968014096   79  Unknown
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>       phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(486441, 36, 30)
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
>       phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(990090, 59, 39)
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sdc1p4   ?           1      946209  1818613248    d  Unknown
> Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>       phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(0, 0, 1)
> Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
>       phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(946208, 47, 30)
> Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
>
>
>
> Yet another mystery
>
>
>
> Owen