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I was reading about magical Chinese drives. How would this be done? The post talks about a 'looped mode' and comments suggest having a different controller to lie to the OS.
I went and bought one of these devices, tried it and it worked as advertized (overwriting data when it was full), although when I formatted it, it started showing its 'true' capacity.
How is this achieved?
6Interesting discussion about this on Hacker News – Ivo Flipse – 2011-04-13T12:01:40.647
14I think the question would be better titled "How is the capacity of flash memory faked" since it is actually about faking the amount of storage on a flash drive, not a magnetic hard disk. – Joseph Earl – 2011-04-13T12:12:24.630
I want one of those Chinese magic drives, but I am not flying to China to get one!, would make a great geek gag gift. – Moab – 2011-04-13T15:23:57.443
+1. I had never heard of this before seeing this question "rocket to the top of the charts" in the Hot Questions view. – jprete – 2011-04-13T23:05:37.410
heh.. thanks :) I wasn't expecting this kind of a response when i got curious about a 'harddisk' with 2 giant nut-bolts in the case – Rohan Monga – 2011-04-14T05:46:50.690