I carefully cut those teensy plastic dividers away with a very sharp x-acto blade and get rid of them. They frequently snap off at one end or the middle and cause cards to malfunction when inserted into readers. Sometimes the loose sliver of plastic even snags and wedges the card into the reader.
Most cards (eg Sandisk) don't have this superfluous plastic junk, so there's really no downside to the sliverectomy. On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 5:10 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > I've run into an interesting problem with SD cards, between the metal > contacts are plastic separators if they are bent in the least bit out of > shape it can screw up the card seating properly and you'll get a variety of > different error messages including but not limited to the card not being > formatted and the card being unreadable. In most cases the stray plastic > can be pushed back into position and the card will be read and written to by > the device, just fine. I expect when it happens enough the plastic will > break off, what happens after that is anyone's guess. I'd check that out. > > > > On 5/13/2017 12:46 PM, jtainter wrote: >> >> Last fall I bought a K-1 with a Sandisk 64 gb card. I have just now gotten >> around to calibrating my lenses for autofocus. Partway through this exercise >> my system (Windows 7) would not recognize the card. It had recognized the >> card fine up to that point. I tried going through a Lexar card reader on a >> USB port, but Windows kept saying that the card had an unrecognized file >> system and offered to format it for me. >> >> I reformatted the card in the camera, but with the same result. >> >> I then got out an old 2 gb card, formatted it for the K-1, and Windows 7 >> read it just fine. So the camera and computer are working okay. >> >> At this point I thought the 64 gb card was faulty. But it is only about >> six months old and has only about 150 images written to it. (I've been too >> busy for photography). >> >> Then the next day I put that non-working 64 gb Sandisk in the computer, >> and Windows read it fine. >> >> So, one day it works, a few hours later it doesn't work, and the next day >> it works again. >> >> Can anyone pinpoint what the problem might be? Specifically, can I trust >> this Sandisk card? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Joe >> >> >> > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
