cloned sd card is not booting

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> writes:
> On 08/06/2014 09:58 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> writes:
>>> I suspect that although they are marketed as 16GB, they vary due to
>>> manufacturing quality by a block or so.
>> The other thing to consider if it is a bargain bin drive is that the
>> drive might be a counterfeit with mismarked capacity.
>> http://www.ebay.com/gds/All-About-Fake-Flash-Drives-2013-/10000000177553258/g.html
>
> These are not sold under any name.  They are 'blank' packaged.
>
> So I figured that whatever that whatever is 'wrong' with them in
> perhaps malware, would get blown away by Linux.  I once DID buy a usb
> drive from an online store that had a hidden partition with some
> strange looking stuff....

The above URL uses counterfeit to mean drives are sold as large capacity
drives that really don't have large flash chips inside.  The upstream
sellers buy small drives and reprogram the controllers to advertise a
larger size that the drive really can't deliver.

-wolfgang