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From: the wharf rat on 12 Feb 2010 12:54
In article <hl24pb$5nj$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
BillW50 <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote:
>>
>> What do you mean by "the storage isn't real"?
>
>That is exactly what fake drives are. They report a higher capacity than
>what they really are. Thus some of the capacity is real and some

What's going on is that for some reason these guys think it's
necessary to reprogram the controller to sell fraudulent merchandise. They
could just as well ship empty shells and save themselves the trouble.

They reprogram the controller (reprogram is a bit of a grandiosity;
all they really do is change the identifying information the device reports)
to have the thing identify itself as a higher capacity device. Writes
appear to succeed because the stupid controllers on these things do odd and
unpredictable things when handed addresses outside of the range they
expect and typically "wrap" the address to some real but nonsensical value.
Reads then fail because they return data that's been over-written by 12
other bogus write cycles.

I guess if you're going to try and save money and flash devices
at least do an fsck (chkdsk) before you use it...

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