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Re: Warning re. using the SD card copier

Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 4:48 pm
by ejolson
DougieLawson wrote:
ejolson wrote:Reporting the "Model Number" and "Serial Number" strings as given by hdparm -I before copying would help cut down on errors.
hdparm -I doesn't work at all well for an SDCard in my USB reader.

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root@pi-server:~ # hdparm -I /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Unknown device type:
        bits 15&14 of general configuration word 0 both set to 1.
That's interesting. What does hdparm -i return? Maybe it is even easier to distinguish sdcards from other media.