No, it's not locked. The error message is just that formatting failed. The card no longer shows up on the desktop of my mac. I have some recovery software. I'll play with it again later. Paul On Dec 17, 2006, at 1:30 AM, Mark Cassino wrote:
> And I just ordered a couple Transcend cards... > > The camera does a good job of notifying the user of this - but just in > case, the card wasn't accidentally locked by any chance? Was there any > error message? > > Carrying an extra card is a good idea - but then, you _were_ carrying > two cards. > > - MCC > > Paul Stenquist wrote: >> I've had my first card failure in three years of shooting digital. I >> went out to a gallery tonight that has shown my work a couple of >> times. >> They had someone else's show opening, and I wanted to suck up and >> shoot >> some pics for them. I left with a full card in my camera that included >> some walkaround pics from this afternoon and a lot of snaps of Grace. >> I >> took that card out and inserted a Transcend 2 gig, 150X that has been >> in the card holder in the battery grip. It had some previous work on >> it, so I went to format it. The formatting failed repeatedly. Wouldn't >> do it. So I had to reinsert the card that was full and format it. I >> hadn't downloaded the shots that were on it. There were a few good >> ones >> that I wanted. But I had to shoot this opening. In any case, it's a >> failure for a Transcend card. I'm going back to Sandisk. The bargain >> Transcend cards are far more expensive if they are failure prone. One >> time is one time too many. >> Paul >> >> > > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
