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.
>
> This is the fdisk I'm using.
>
>>
>> What brand of card are you using?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
> when i try fdisk /dev/mmcda1
> it returns:
> Unable to read /dev/mmcda1
>
> This may be a symptom of the card corruption
> It's a Pretec brand 128Mb card.
>
> Ian
>