On 3/6/05 10:51 am, "J�rg Duurkoop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two years back I got a 256MB card that's become flakey
> recently, I can still use it in my card-reader as a
> portable disk but when I put it in the camera, the
> Coolpix tells me that it can't be used :-(
>
> Yesterday I bought a "fast, 70x" 512MB CF-card that
> formats well in the camera (in fact the Nikon saw it
> right out of the box, 525 pix in "fine" quality) BUT:
>
> When I put it in the reader it doesn't mount under OSX
> (message: OSX can't read blah blah) and when I use Disk
> Utility to check it DU tells me that Desktop DF has too
> many clusters for a non-FAT partition, although it also
> says before in Phase 1: Read FAT. So DU has already
> determined that it's a FAT-disk. What gives??
Formatting removable cards was a problem with the early Kodak DCS Pro
cameras too. The 4XX models were particularly prone to type 3 ata PCMCIA
hard drive failure - and as connection to a mac was via the camera scsi and
Pshop plugin there was no direct access to the card unless you had a type 3
reader for mac - which are not common. But even given a reader the cards
were dos formatted and mac tools were ineffectual at diagnostics and repair.
My answer was to get an old pentium 2 pc setup with a type 2/3 3.5" bay
isa reader by Litronic and use the tools in win98 to format and repair the
cards - worked very well on cards which were reported as faulty, unusable,
unformattable or threw the camera into a never ending read/write loop.
The Kodak/Pshop camera software for formatting the cards was very basic
and offered nothing for problem cards whereas win98 formatting and scandisk
were a real bonus and usually solved the problem for very small outlay.
Pete
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