Re: formatting a SD card

Dave Leifer <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:03:40 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.handhelds.zaurus.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Friday 14 November 2003 02:33 pm, [email protected] wrote:

> >> 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,

Please try 'fdisk /dev/mmcda' (not /dev/mmcda1).  

mmcda is the entire device.  mmcda1 is the first partition.

Dave