in mandrake you have to mount it of course, but it's no big deal.
I tried to format it in linux and rendered it useless in the camera.
it has to be formatted with the canon tools under windowz sad to say.
once it's formatted, it has a folder called dcim which holds the images.
this is the format the camera uses and must be there for it to be useable for the camera. you are not going to hurt the pc by mounting it in linux. under windows it must be another problem, or the card is going bad. if you can't get the images off the card and she's willing have her use the windows tools ( very sorry to have to say that ;-( ) I forget which one I think it's cfsomething, anyway then it should work if no other problems.
Todd Slater wrote:
A colleague has a g4 with cf card. She usually uses the usb connection to get pics to her windoze machine; today she came to me and said they wouldn't download--got some message like there were too many. She has plenty of hd space. Since the pics are on cf, I figured I'd copy them to my linux box with a cf reader. After copying, the files were 0 size and I just had the empty dcim directory. I tried again and the system froze! I was able to see several subfolders in dcim, some of which had images; one had something else. I'm not exactly excited about trying this again--does canon do something weird to format cf cards, or was this just a fluke? The card is a kingston. I've never had this happen with my lexar cf card.
Todd
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