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Patching for broken SD card readers

I had the pleasure to buy a broken SD card reader. It reports 2GB cards as 1GB cards. Here is a fix that allows you to force capacities onto the scsi disk kernel subsystem of the Linux kernel: scsi-capacity-setter.patch . The respective user space program is here capacity.c . You might want to use it in conjunction with some udev rules.