Re: Writing to Micro SD Card with Generic Card Reader

I was able to write the latest 1.8.1b546 image to a 2.0GB microSD card
mounted in a card writer that plugs into a USB port on my Windows 7 PC.

I used the program that can be found here:

http://forum.m0n0.ch/index.php/topic,5813.0.html

You must run all programs like this as Administrator.

Give it a try and see if it works for you.




On 11/9/2013 10:24 PM, Gold Dragon Inc. wrote:
> Dear Fred
> 
> Yes i started with -u on the pysdiskwrite. I even tried using HP USB Disk
> Storage Formatter and it managed to write the first 8KB, then error again
> like the first message. One thing I realize is that with USB Flash Drive, I
> can partition it with windows, but with the MicroSD card, I cannot partition
> it, only format it. Is this the cause? Maybe when trying to rewrite the
> partition somehow it is not allowed.
> 
> Is there other tools to apply m0n0wall to microSD card?
> 
> Thank you
> Rendra
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Grayson [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 8:34 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] 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
>>
>>
> 
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