Can you format it in the camera.� There may be overhead that the Olympus puts on that a generic formatting program doesn't.� If this doesn't work then I think that you might investigate any warrenties otherwise, you have a door shim.
Keith Thompson "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > Maybe someone here is familiar with this.� I recently got an Olympus C5050 > digital camera and today the Samsung 128mb SmartMedia card went dead > (purchased separately).� The XD card STILL WORKS, so it's evidently a > problem with the SM card (of which I've heard of before*). > > I've used a card reader (6 in 1 USB 2.0 reader/writer) to read data from > the SM card and it is STILL working fine.� I can drag things onto the SM > card and delete.� Out of desperation I even formatted the card on a PC from > the reader and that still didn't help.� Someone sent me two programs to run > that would format/restore the SM card (and another that would enable > panoramic function on NON Olympus media).� I've tried running them on XP > and '98 and respectively get these errors:� "Smart media drivers are not > loaded"...and "Smart media FILTER drivers are not loaded".� I've tried > running the programs from the media card itself, and from the desktop.� Is > anyone familiar with these errors?� Seemingly from the errors the programs > are not seeing any SM drivers.� The brand of the reader, from the logo > looks like "PQI" PN: FRAT-00. > > * (I've also heard that formatting on a Fuji 'cam will fix it, but no Fuji > camera around here). > Thanks, > -Clint > > God Bless Us All > Clint Hamilton, Owner > http://OrpheusComputing.com (C) -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. � ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
