Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 12:15 PM Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Those deer trail cameras are somewhat cheap, ish. Some of them don't >> even have a format option. I have a old camera that the IR sensor >> doesn't work on, it never knows something is there to take pictures of >> so it does nothing. Anyway, I use it to format cards with since most >> all trail cameras use the same format type and directory tree. One >> partition and vfat. Basically, it is really simple and not a lot of >> options. >> >> I use a card reader that hooks up via USB. It's one of those multi >> reader thingys. It's been a pretty good one but it isn't a real >> expensive one either. Given I got the data off and plan to trash it >> anyway, it's not worth recompiling a kernel, rebooting and then hoping >> it will have the right device thingys. >> >> This thread has been interesting tho. At least I know that a Sandisk >> card at least tries to fail in a way that I can get the data off that >> did get written to the card. Hey, that's a lot better than some I >> guess. :-D I've had some other brands that when they die, they dead. >> You get nothing at all. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > It's too bad that the little app I pointed you at doesn't work on your > setup. I'm going to look around for something more generic. > > Keep in mind that the 'failure', if that's what it is, could be in > your trail camera if it glitched and set the read only protection in > the card by accident, or possibly something happened in the USB > bridge. I think you'd possibly be better served in the long run by > sticking this SD in a plastic bag and saving it until we can find a > way to check it out more. Won't cost you anything to throw it away > next year. > > Happy New Year. Hope you get lots more fun trail camera pictures! > > Cheers, > Mark > >
Yea, while I'm just curious, I was willing to try it if it would work. It could be that the camera did it but given the lack of features, I sort of doubt it. While some of my trail cameras have the format option, I don't think that one does. Anything is possible tho. It could have done it without intending to do it. I did have to do a complete reset a few days ago. It was acting a little weird. Reset seems to have fixed it. It runs off a 12 volt SLA battery and has been powered up for well over a year. It likely needed a reset anyway. lol I have six cameras out there. I also put out food stuff for the deer too. Range cubes, rice bran, mineral salt with other added minerals and vitamins and sometimes a old thing of lettuce or something. They come eat quite a lot especially at night. We have one deer that is only a 8 pointer but that thing is massive for this area. We guesstimate it weighs around 200 lbs. Could even be above that. A 175 lb deer is a big deer around here. Why it doesn't have a larger set of antlers, we have no idea because it should be at least a ten point if not a twelve. I guess he just doesn't have the right DNA. If you find something else, let me know. I'll hang on to the card for a while. I did put a big X on it with a marker tho. Dale :-) :-)
