Hi, I am sorry for being attentive to this, I have been away, without internet access, and had a few other problems, as well being negligent. This is more of a sitrep on this topic than anything else, because I feel that I still have work to do on it.
-> Patio
Thanks for answering.
I carelessly omitted the word 'like' from my first post, which should read:
"...I'd LIKE to find out which memory controller chip is inside a given flash drive by using software...". The post is better understood if you read the subject header and carry straight on to the body of the text, hence
"Which memory controller is in a USB flash drive or a thumb drive, pen drive, memory stick ?"
I am sorry for any lack of clarity, or if I still have not explained myself properly.
-> Dennis
Thanks for your suggestions. I previously (eventually) found ChipEasy. I'll find Flash Lineup...sometime.
However using ChipGenius, USBDeview and ChipEasy all gave more or less the same information, except the controller chip, although searching on the internet, the numbers given for this chip seemed to be different numbers for the same or very similar chips.
I opened a flash drive, which turned out to be fairly easy in fact, and attempted to read the numbers on the chips, but there was no match (none of the numbers) with the information given by the three software programs. I wanted to take pictures of the chips, but as it turned out I have not been able to.
I have not attempted to find the reprogramming software.
That is where this project has reached, the USB flash drive is in pieces, but only the covers have been removed, it's not possible nor necessary to dissemble it further, but it's still useable (with care and difficulty). If I want to use it, I'll just have to remember that realistically it can't store more than 7GB of data, instead of the 64GB Windows thinks it can.
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17.July.2014
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