<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"DJ-Pfulio" <djpfulio@jdpfu.com><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, July 19, 2016 7:08:10 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Flash drive format - kworker errors<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">None ideas on this specific effort, but there are lots or fake flash memory<br>devices out there. My first order of business with all of them is to write the<br>amount of data on them that it is supposed to support, then read that back off<br>and verify that every bit written was also stored. Lots of these devices only<br>have 8G or half of the amount claimed on the package, but they change to chip to<br>report 64G. The only way to know is by shoving data on and pulling it off then<br>verifying 59G (format wasted space) or so pulled off matches.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I boot up my T100A runner Winders 8.1 and run a program that tests the, I think it is called hwflash. I will then take a screen shot of the failures and send to the sellers. If it passes I put data on it.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>If filled up the space on fake ones before and then freed up the real flash. It is risky and you can only use it to store data. No reformat or the files that contain "data" would be deleted and you'd be at risk.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></div></body></html>