[arm-allstar] can't create SD card image

[David McGough]

Hi Don,

I'm glad you found the issue.  Out of curiosity, where did you get the bad 
cards?

73, David K4FXC


On Mon, 3 Oct 2022, "Don Sayler via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> Well, this was a head-scratcher. Turns out I had *2* counterfeit SD cards.
> Not 16gb, just 99mb. They sure look like genuine Sandisk Ultra! Ugh. Why do
> people do that.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 8:58 AM Don Sayler <don.sayler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm trying to create a new SD card image from the latest RPi zip file. I
> > extract the zip and get the IMG file. I use Win32 Disk Imager to write the
> > image to a micro SD card. No errors are shown, and Win32 Disk Imager shows
> > 'write complete'. And Win32 Disk Imager shows me only the 'F' drive, which
> > is also what File Explorer and Disk Manager show.
> >
> > But, there is nothing on the SD card. The write protect tab on the adapter
> > is not set. This is a 16 MB card. I even tried running Win32 Disk Imager as
> > Administrator. I tried this on 2 different SD cards. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Don
> >
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