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 _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 5 - Open Source Show and Tell Jan 2 - TBD Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
