Hi,
I'm sure this is easily explained, but I'm curious as to how to interpret the reported capacities from CF cards. For example, I have a
512MB Hitachi device, which my embedded system tells me has 512,483,328 bytes available, (1000944 addressable sectors in LBA mode)Plugging the same card into WinHex shows the same number of bytes, but reports the cards capacity as 489MB- how is this figure arrived at?
I'm wondering if the 'Addressable bytes in LBA mode' figure the CF controller reports in the CIS data might include 'bad' sectors- Can I assume from what is reported that it's all useable?
Many thanks
David