Can't. It refuses to format a card that it thinks is write protected. But it would read the firmware update.
Jeffery Sent from my iPad Jeffery L. Smith New Orleans, Louisiana USA On May 27, 2012, at 22:33, <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you formatting the card with the camera? > > Jonathan [[email protected]] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul > Stenquist > Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 6:04 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: card FAIL? > > Hmmm. Sounds like a camera problem. > On May 27, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > >> I seem to always buy SanDisk, and not one of them will work in a Leica M8. > I just ordered a Kingston in hopes that it will work. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jeffery >> ______________________ >> Jeffery Smith >> New Orleans, LA >> www.400tx.com >> >> >> >> >> >> On May 27, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >>> I've had two Transcend cards fail almost right away. Transcends that > didn't fail immediately seem okay. But I'm most fond of Sandisk Extreme. > Never had one fail. The 16 gig card that I now use most often has about > 20,000 exposures on it. I'm going to stick with Sandisk going forward. >>> >>> Paul >>> On May 27, 2012, at 4:55 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: >>> >>>> Ah geez... noted! >>>> >>>> :) >>>> -c >>>> >>>> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Eric Featherstone >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> On 27 May 2012 21:37, Christine Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> For the record, it was a PNY Professional 8gb Class 10 card... >>>>>> Honestly, I've never paid too close attention to the cards, beyond >>>>>> size, and I do look for class 10s these days. I do have some SanDisk >>>>>> Extremes, too... and a couple of others I've picked up in drugstores >>>>>> in "emergencies"... Maybe it's time to pay attention... >>>>> >>>>> For what it's worth, the only cards I've had fail were PNY, and both >>>>> of mine failed. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Eric >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2176 / Virus Database: 2425/5025 - Release Date: 05/27/12 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

