This was subsequently fixed with the chkflsh method mentioned elsswhwere on here.
What they seem to have done is introduced another translation between the hard disc emulation (were you set the number of cylinders/sectors etc which determines the size of disc DOS expects to find) and the Flash read/write part of the controller firmware. As far as I can see the Flash memory controller firmware is on the same chip as its CPU and can't be modified.
See
http://www.hyperstone.com/download.p...aper_flash.pdf
for some insight into how these things are arranged
ian
ps what I meant to say was this would tend to suggest an "inside job" because it requires the Flash Memory controller chip to be modded, someone somewhere in China probably is knocking out these modded chips by the million and selling them to unscrupulous manufacturers and then they outlet them via these peeps on ebay etc Organised major crime in other words!