On Friday, June 3, 2005, at 04:53 AM, pdimage wrote:
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
I've heard that it's best to format the card in the camera. Also
always erase pics with the camera. Only read from the computer. The
only problem I've had was when I erased my my Fuji 5000 256MB xD card
from the Mac (via USB connect using the camera - don't have a card
reader, cheap and it didn't seem necessary). Had to fix it in the
camera (don't remember what I did - creeping senility?). Just FWIW.
- Peter
PM: 1GHz DP/1 GB/160MB/10.2.8
iMac: 600MHz/768MB/40GB/10.2.8
PB: 3400C/9.1
Brother HL-1870N laser, Epson 785EPX, Epson 2450 scanner
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