On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:20:29PM +0100, Graham wrote:
Last week I bought a 256MB CF card in a PC shop in Brussels, having filled the one in my camera. It seemed to be OK but now the camera is reporting card errors. Can't take the card back so I'd like to try reformatting it. The camera refuses and my Sharp Zaurus sees it but can't read or write. I have a USB card reader that will take it, but how do I use that under Linux?
The USB card reader should appear as a normal SCSI block device, throw the card in and just use it like it was a normal hard drive. If it's the only SCSI/USB Mass Storage device it should appear as /dev/sda, with /dev/sda1 being the one and only partition (usually). If you've got the right utilities installed you should be able to do a mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 and all should be well.
Hope that helps.