Tarquin Mills makes some magical things to make me read } I now have serious things to worry about,I have a Compact Flash IDE } adapter with ATA-100 ribbon cable and 512MB flash card. The first time I } formated it, format said 32MB in sectors. 'Dir'ing the flash found all } but 137K of 488MB available. When files were saved on to it they } disappeared after a reset, to be replaced by nonsense name (same number) } and size files saying "not found", the flash name and size stayed the } same .I thought that may I could use MKpart to set the correct 512MB } size, but accidentally I formated to a to big a size. Now all I get is } bad medium errors from 'format' and 'MKpart'. What do I do, thanks in } advance.
Does it work on a 'classical' hardware ? (assuming all is lost, try it.) >From my experience with QLWA format on Q40, it is better to have partition smaller than 128 MB. I'm sure I get some havoc from 500 MB partition, and pretty sure 256 MB is not so safe either. Also, which version of MKpart did you use (the first one get pretty limited with big disk). All I could give you would be a PE-replacement for MKpart, allowing you to look and update the boot sector (which contains the partition table), but I'm afraid the flash card has already died and won't work. Anyway, this program is like a heavy bazooka, there is no protection and the user is assumed to know what he does... In particular, I still do not know from where in SMSQ/E the system get the CHS values. My program only allow to touch the partition table, but if the CHS values are on the first sector and you crashed it, I do not know how you could restore them... until I update the program, at least! So, what's your thought ?
