partitioning CF card error

Those look like typical Linux warnings, except for the first bit. If you type fdisk <your dev> and then type "p", what does that show? If you were successful, you should see a listing of all partitions on your card. From this point, you should be able to format your partition(s) and get on with the flow.

Good luck!

- slacker

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originally posted by slacker@Jun 28 2006, 12:20 AM

those look like typical linux warnings, except for the first bit. if you type fdisk <your dev> and then type "p", what does that show? if you were successful, you should see a listing of all partitions on your card. from this point, you should be able to format your partition(s) and get on with the flow.

good luck!

- slacker

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thanks!

when I fdisk CF card:

"#fdisk /dev/hda

hda:unknown partition table

device contains neither a valaid DOS partition table, or Sun,SGI or OSF disklabel

Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of coure, the previous content will not be recoverable.

"

can u help me?

thanks!

First a quick question:

You&#39;re trying to do this from a Linux host, right?

- Not uCLinux! While it may be possible to format a CF card, from within uCLinux, it&#39;s certainly not advisable.

Things to check:

1. Be sure that you&#39;re fdisking the correct device.

- scan the output of the &#39;dmesg&#39; command to make sure that your CF card is being properly detected. You should see something like the following:

SCSI device sdg: 3978240 512-byte hdwr sectors (2037 MB)
sdg: Write Protect is off
sdg: Mode Sense: 02 00 00 00
sdg: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdg: 3978240 512-byte hdwr sectors (2037 MB)
sdg: Write Protect is off
sdg: Mode Sense: 02 00 00 00
sdg: assuming drive cache: write through

Pay attention to the name of the device as that is how you&#39;ll access it. NOTE: There is some amount of variation to the drive letter chosen, based upon boot order or when you connected your card reader.

2. Be sure that you don&#39;t have some sort of media issue with the CF card. Try formatting it from within Windows....or from a digital camera...or whatever. You just want to make sure this is successful, before trying on Linux, again.

- If successful, you should be able to "mount" the drive, on your Linux host, and copy files onto it.

Best of luck...

- slacker

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originally posted by slacker@Jun 28 2006, 12:53 PM

first a quick question:

you&#39;re trying to do this from a linux host, right?

- not uclinux! while it may be possible to format a cf card, from within uclinux, it&#39;s certainly not advisable.

things to check:

1. be sure that you&#39;re fdisking the correct device.

- scan the output of the &#39;dmesg&#39; command to make sure that your cf card is being properly detected. you should see something like the following:

scsi device sdg: 3978240 512-byte hdwr sectors (2037 mb)
sdg: write protect is off
sdg: mode sense: 02 00 00 00
sdg: assuming drive cache: write through
scsi device sdg: 3978240 512-byte hdwr sectors (2037 mb)
sdg: write protect is off
sdg: mode sense: 02 00 00 00
sdg: assuming drive cache: write through

pay attention to the name of the device as that is how you&#39;ll access it. note: there is some amount of variation to the drive letter chosen, based upon boot order or when you connected your card reader.

2. be sure that you don&#39;t have some sort of media issue with the cf card. try formatting it from within windows....or from a digital camera...or whatever. you just want to make sure this is successful, before trying on linux, again.

- if successful, you should be able to "mount" the drive, on your linux host, and copy files onto it.

best of luck...

- slacker

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thanks