Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 17:32:04 +0800
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Again off topic - Writing a SmartMedia card's CIS ...
Hi all!
I'm having a bit of an issue with a SmartMedia memory card ... I plugged it
into my Libretto's PCMCIA converter just as it went into suspend and as a
result, corrupted the first meg or so of the card. The problem is the
card's CIS (card identification structure, stores a variety of information
about the memory card) was damaged in the process.
Now I know there are some programs out there that can rewrite the CIS in
their formatting processes but they're reader specific (the one for the Zio
is well documented for instance). Generally these readers have a program
called smprep.exe coming with their drivers which does this for them. It
isn't possible to use standard formatting tools or even disk editing tools
to write this CIS because the drivers for the reader treat such commands as
standard disk commands and hence show the programs what they're expecting -
a disk of some sort - and hide the SM card specific details such as the CIS.
I've heard that it's possible to write the CIS on a memory card when it's
connected using a PCMCIA converter (which are pretty generic anyway) but
I've not been able to find anything further such as that smprep program
(these readers show up as ATA drives so they don't ship with drivers since
Win95OSR2 and above have been able to use them with inbuilt drivers).
Does anyone know anything about this or, even better, know where the
equivalent program to smprep.exe for a PCMCIA/PC card SM reader may be found?
- Raymond
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