On Jan 13, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Mark Cassino wrote: > I've always taken the same approach - but my X's Drive II started > having > problems reading the 2 gig SD cards used in the K10D. > > The drive's manual said to make sure the cards were formatted > before use > to avoid the error I was getting. So I formated all of the cards off a > PC, and they now work fine. (I've started just deleting files via the > camera, not re-formatting every time I want to clear a card.) > > Beats me as to what the difference would be - "format before use" > seems > to be an oxymoron since it would be impossible to write to an > unformatted card, right?
Cards come formatted but I don't trust the formatting to be 100% compatible with what a particular camera does when it formats, so I always reformat the cards before using them. Always format your cards with the camera, not a computer. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
