On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 18:04 -0500, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Sunday 30 December 2007, Wayne C wrote:
> > Hi Chris, They are two GB cards, They have the FAT16 filesystem on them
> > and I'm using a sandisk imagemate card reader. After I posted my first
> > message I got wondering if it had anything to do with the number of
> > files rather then the size.  I split the 302 files into three sub
> > directories and all is well. 
> 
>    Huh.  That shouldn't be -- FAT16 allows for 512 files in the root 
> directory 
> for non-floppy media.  Perhaps this means the SanDisk Imagemate reader 
> emulates a floppy device.
> 
>    At least you know how to get around the problem.
> 
>    -- Chris

Thanks for your help Chris. Here's the output from fdisk:

Disk /dev/sdd: 2032 MB, 2032664576 bytes
64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 984 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1               1         984     1983619+   6  FAT16



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