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Autodetection of large drives fails on Linux

Open fhunleth opened this issue 8 years ago • 3 comments

The user is programming a 120 GB SSD connected via a SATA->USB3 cable using fwup. The drive is not being autodetected since fwup thinks that it's too large to be a memory card. There should be a better way of detecting removable drives or the user should be given an error that's more helpful.

fhunleth avatar Feb 08 '17 21:02 fhunleth

I believe I'm having a similar problem on MacOS.

jclif avatar Mar 29 '19 01:03 jclif

@jclif Could your drive be failing one of these size checks: https://github.com/fhunleth/fwup/blob/master/src/mmc_osx.c#L103-L110

fhunleth avatar Mar 29 '19 11:03 fhunleth

Yupyup, I have a rather large SD card (>120 GB); though by modern standards, cards of this size seem to be more and more common.

jclif avatar Mar 29 '19 16:03 jclif