Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:40:39 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Formatting SmartMedia cards ...
At 12:34 AM 13/10/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 07:28:49 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Formatting SmartMedia cards ...From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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.The Compuserve Windows forum is free to the public these days if you want to ask there. But I'd think the SM card would have to work with Windows formatting utility just as the CF card does. I'd guess hat's what a lot people who don't know much at all about computers use to reformat SM cards.
The CServe forum is at:
http://forums.compuserve.com/vlforums/default.asp?SRV=WinSupport&loc=us
You may have to go through the process of signging up to access the forum.
Thanks, I'll have a look.
Bleh ... OK I read back and I realize I wasn't quite accurate in my description. My problem is Windows on my libby insists on formatting it as FAT16 when I use it with the SM to PCMCIA adapter but the camera wants it in FAT12. When the camera is presented with a FAT16-formatted card, it seems unable to see it properly and hence when I try to format it in the camera it comes back with a card error. Ya it seems a little weird on the camera's side but I've walked the card before (when it worked) and it was definitely FAT12 (and yet still 64MB and still visible to Windows so somewhere somehow Windows must support reading FAT12 partitions at least up to 64 meg). The problem is there doesn't seem to be an option to force the card to format as FAT12 under Windows (which I'm presuming is what will fix this), it just flips over to FAT16.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.Huh... Now I wonder if Windows DOES in fact format >all< removeable media as Fat12, and not Fat16.
Let's see if the camera and/or cardwriters at work have any better luck with this thing on Monday ... *sigh*
Oh and I was using Norton Utilities for Windows 95 Version 2 (the final version of Norton Utilities that actually came with tools for DOS). The disk editor only lets you read from the disk when you're in Windows (it will let you dump things to the file system as proper files though).
- Raymond
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