On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:07:31PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
On Tue 03 Aug, 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?
Are you aware that formatting a card on a camera lays down extra information that formatting on a PC can destroy?
I did the same thing on a CF card but fortunately the card was recovereable in the camera. I did a web search and found lots of information about this extra 'information'.
Erm, the only extra info I've seen on one is the "dcim/cameramodel" directory, which will be created when you shove the card in the camera anyways. I don't know of any extra info that the camera sets (mine sets the SD card name, but never mind... It does that on any card you throw at it... so now I have lots of cards labelled "Concorde" which is, erm, handy. Specially on the one that only really has Palm software on it, and was only thrown in the camera to check that I could store data and piccies on it from 2 different devices).
Cheers,