Stevieag Posted June 27, 2007 Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 hi, i have a sandisk 512MB Pro Dua memory card i use in my phone. i have never had a problem with this. i just put it in the usb card adapter then it comes up..... now i have a 4GB sony card. this doesnt come up when plugged in. it sometimes come up if i have it in and do a full reboot. the 512 come up as 'system:/media/sdb1' or media/disk i hate to say this but in desperation i used winxp.... i feel sick it worked fine here swapping quite happily, so...... im back using windoze just to put stuff on my memory card? can anybody help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 27, 2007 Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 It should be something in the way the memcard is formatted. Please plug the card in (without mounting it), open a root console and cfdisk /dev/sdb What comes up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevieag Posted June 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 cfdisk /dev/sda comes up NEW 4GB DISK Disk Drive : /dev/sda Size: 4072669184 bytes, 4072 Heads: 128 Sectors per track: 32 Cylinders: 1942 Name: sda1 Flags: Boot Part Type: Primary FS Type: W95 Fat32 (LBA) Label: Size: 4072.67 SMALLER WORKING 500MB DISK Disk Drive : /dev/sda Size: 491782144 bytes, 491 Heads: 32 Sectors per track: 32 Cylinders: 938 Name: Flags: Part Type: Pri/Log FS Type: Free Space Label: Size: 0.26 * Name: sda1 Flags: Boot Part Type: Primary FS Type: FAT16 Label: [NO NAME ] Size: 491.01 * Name: Flags: Part Type: Pri/Log FS Type: Free Space Label: Size: 0.53 Definitely different? i take it, take my data off the disk then reformat as fat16? then put data back on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 28, 2007 Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 Noticed only the other day that sometimes 4GB USB sticks cause problems, and it's not necessarily related to Linux, also happens in Windows. I hear they require special software? :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 (edited) I don't think the filesystem has something to do... and if you format the "big" one as FAT16 you have to create two partitions (2 GB is the size limit for FAT16). You can also format it as NTFS and use ntfs-3g, but IMO NTFS on a pendrive is an overkill. Do you have "dosfstools" package installed? urpmq dosfstools I don't have a 4GB pendrive to check Ian's tip (mine is 2GB), but I do have a 4GB memory card on my Sony digicam, formatted as FAT32, and I can mount it just fine... either with digikam/ptp or via konqueror/usb_storage. So, if the above is happening, it must be random... Edited June 29, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevieag Posted July 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2007 yes i do have dosfstools installed? im still at a loss. ive reformatted my card and as you said cant have one partition on a 4GB card unless fat32 i cleared the card and allowed the phones internal auto formatting to take place and it does it as fat32 so as it is im flitting between xp and linux just for my memcard? all help is much appreciated...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wardevil Posted July 2, 2007 Report Share Posted July 2, 2007 No need to switch to windows to use memcard but i will give you an advise based on my problems with usb sticks. Reboot into windows and format the card with default values,meaning,dont touch in any settings in the windows gui to format the card. Works like a charm for me and it is the only way i could find to put usb stick/memcard to work in windows and linux. The card would be formated as fat32 with 4 Gb file limit size...seems enough dont you? If i format any card/usb stick i have in linux,linux always recognise the drive but windows not.....weird Cheers.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevieag Posted July 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2007 http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-tut...ives-linux.html tried this, abit of a pain having to mount each time but works? just changed fstab again, automount active Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 2, 2007 Report Share Posted July 2, 2007 If you change noauto to auto, then it should mount. I'm presuming that's what you did when you said automount active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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