Re: formatting a SD card

On Friday 14 November 2003 02:24 am, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   The SD card I'm using in my SL5600 has got corrupted somehow.
> ls /mnt/card gives Input/Output errors as does any file system
> function (mkdir, touch etc).  I have tried reformatting with mke2fs
> but this fails with errors ('Device size reported to be zero'), the
> widowmaker app, and opie-formatter, but I think they are just
> shelling mke2fs and fail. fsck and e2fsck fail saying the
> superblock could not be read.
>
> I need to low-level format the card, does anyone know how?

Ian,

> fdisk does'nt work on sd cards

Fdisk _does_ work on sd cards.  If you are getting a "bus error" 
message then you need to get another version.  Try the one from 
http://killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=205.

What brand of card are you using?

Dave