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    Different CF cards have subtly different sizes

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      gloomrider last edited by

      See this post:

      http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,18805.msg96698.html#msg96698

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        dotdash last edited by

        Is this supposed to be where you post your CF card sizes?
        Here's a handful of newegg specials I had on my desk. Most are sadly undersized.

        A-Data speedy 1GB (orange)
        01F0 Master 044A CF 1GB
        Phys C/H/S 1966/16/63 Log C/H/S 983/32/63

        A-Data 80x super 1GB (purple)
        01F0 Master 044A CF 1GB
        Phys C/H/S 1966/16/63 Log C/H/S 983/32/63

        Kingston 1GB (flower)
        01F0 Master 044A CF CARD 1GB
        Phys C/H/S 1934/16/63 Log C/H/S 967/32/63

        Trancend 133x 2GB
        01F0 Master 044A TRANSCEND
        Phys C/H/S 3884/16/63 Log C/H/S 971/64/63

        A-Data speedy 2GB (grey)
        01F0 Master 044A CF 2GB
        Phys C/H/S 3933/16/63 Log C/H/S 983/64/63

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          gloomrider last edited by

          @dotdash:

          Is this supposed to be where you post your CF card sizes?
          Here's a handful of newegg specials I had on my desk. Most are sadly undersized.

          snip

          Kingston 1GB (flower)
          01F0 Master 044A CF CARD 1GB
          Phys C/H/S 1934/16/63 Log C/H/S 967/32/63

          snip

          The problem is worse than I thought. The total bytes on this card is 998,129,664.  How low to go indeed  :(

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            drees last edited by

            @gloomrider:

            The problem is worse than I thought. The total bytes on this card is 998,129,664.  How low to go indeed  :(

            That's ridiculous.  It should have at least 1,000,000,000 bytes.  Hard drives have standards to meet if they want to advertise themselves (can't remember the name of the standard).

            Memory is supposed to follow the JEDEC standard which means that 1GB of memory is supposed to be 1,073,741,824 bytes.

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              iMicke last edited by

              I recently built my first pfsense box and I used a 1Gb Transcend Industrial compact flash. Unfortunately it was also too small for your 1Gb nanobsd images. According to the documentation it is C/H/S 1974/16/63..

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                gloomrider last edited by

                @iMicke:

                I recently built my first pfsense box and I used a 1Gb Transcend Industrial compact flash. Unfortunately it was also too small for your 1Gb nanobsd images. According to the documentation it is C/H/S 1974/16/63..

                You could still use the card with the 512MB image.

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