Re: Writing to Micro SD Card with Generic Card Reader

It looks like you are using physdiskwrite to write the image.

Did you start physdiskwrite with the -u commandline option that is
required to write to target media that is 2GB or larger?

The initial format of the target media does not matter.

On 11/9/2013 7:22 AM, Gold Dragon Inc. wrote:
> Hi All
> 
>  
> 
> I am trying to write the m0n0wall 1.34 into a micro sd card (2GB) using a
> generic card reader. But for some reason I always got this error message:
> 
>  
> 
> Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive1:
> 
>    Windows:       cyl: 121601
> 
>                   tpc: 255
> 
>                   spt: 63
> 
>    C/H/S:         16383/16/63
> 
>    Model:         ST31000524AS
> 
>    Serial number:             9VPDW7KW
> 
>    Firmware rev.: JC4B
> 
>  
> 
> Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive2:
> 
>    Windows:       cyl: 125
> 
>                   tpc: 255
> 
>                   spt: 63
> 
>  
> 
> Information for \\.\PhysicalDrive3:
> 
>    Windows:       cyl: 3
> 
>                   tpc: 255
> 
>                   spt: 63
> 
>  
> 
> Which disk do you want to write? (0..3) 2
> 
> About to overwrite the contents of disk 2 with new data. Proceed? (y/n) y
> 
> Found signed compressed image file
> 
> Write error after 0 bytes (8192).
> 
>  
> 
> Can anyone help me? The SD Card was preformated with Fat. I tried FAT32,
> still the same.
> 
> I try it with 32MB of USB Flash Disk, it worked.
> 
>  
> 
> Is there something I need to do? Please help.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Rendra
> 
>