It appears that some CF cards have 'difficulties' around the partition
table. Blame it on whoever made the card.
You could try using dd to write zeros to the entire card. That has been
known to unstick some CF cards.
Matt
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:13:13PM -0400, Joshua Jackson wrote:
> I recently purchased a USB reader and a few Compact Flash cards and ran into
> a problem after experimenting with the usb-storage drive to use the flash
> cards as drive storage capacity.
>
> The compact flash cards come pre-formatted with a FAT 16 partition. After
> removing this partition without immediately recreating one, the card seems as
> though it can no longer be accessed. It reports as being a 64Mb device but
> the partition table can no longer be read.
>
> I have been successful at changing the partition type to 83 and reformatting
> the CompactFlash devices with an ext2 filesystem... but with this particular
> unit, I removed the partition table entry and removed the card from the
> reader.
>
> Did I goof up and trash the CompactFlash unit or did it just happen to go bad
> about the same time that I blanked the partition table?
>
> Is there a way to write a new parition table to it at a raw/USB command level?
>
> Josh
>
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