Re: [LIB] Formatting SmartMedia cards ...

[Raymond]

Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 08:24:06 +0800
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Formatting SmartMedia cards ...


At 09:44 AM 12/10/2002 -0700, you wrote:

Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:38:53 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Formatting SmartMedia cards ...

From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

so I figured I'd format it in the libby first. Therein lies the problem ... does anyone know how to format a SM card as FAT12 from within Windows

Raymond,

I've just gone through figuring out formatting CF cards, and it seems that ALL removable disks are formatted Windows as FAT12 by default.

Hmm ... well I managed to get the card to fdisk once in my libby then I formatted in my libby it then walked the physical bytes of the disk using Norton DiskEdit and it quite clearly says FAT16 (and the partition table is gibberish if you read it as FAT12). How big is your card? I don't think DOS by itself will let you format anything bigger than 15 meg as FAT12, I was hoping some 3rd party program might.

I confirmed this both from a reply to a post to the Compuserve Windows support group, as well as using Norton DiskEdit and looking at the partition info for some of the floppy disks I have.

Ya floppy disks are all FAT12 (well OK apart from those LS120's).

If you have a PC card SM reader for the Lib, or a USB version for your PC, and the SM card can be recognized by them, then just right-click the drive in My Computer, and choose 'Format'. I've done this several times successfully now.

I'm using an SM to PCMCIA adapter in my libby. I would use my camera to format them except for some bizzare reason, if the card isn't actually formatted at FAT12 FIRST the camera rejects it and will refuse to format it.


*sigh* this is really getting annoying ... I might see if the camera at work can take SM cards and if so if it will format them regardless ...


Thanks anyway!

- Raymond

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