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Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux?

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On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, Ant wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I got a bunch of old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards (16 MB to 1 GB), 
> that were used for old Palm smartphones and PDAs. I thought maybe I could use 
> them in Linux. I also have an internal memory card reader to handle them on 
> my Debian stable (Kernel v2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 10:07:46 UTC 2012 
> x86_64 GNU/Linux) desktop computer.
>
> They can be read and accessed, but I cannot seem to write to them like 
> deleting, formatting (even when unmounted), adding files, etc. in my old 
> Gnome v2.3.20 desktop. Am I missing something? :( FYI, dmesg/messages of my 
> attempts to use them fully can be found in 
> http://filebin.ca/LVns4B1M79U/log.txt (over a MB).
>
Did this change with hardware?

I bought a cardreader about 2004 when I got a digital camera, to read 
cmpactflash cards.  It was fine, read different types of cards though I 
never used it with others.

Then I started with SD cards.  The reader worked initially, then with 
other cards didn't.  Then I realized the cardreader was so old that it 
didn't know how to handle SD cards larger than 2gigs.  I had to buy a 
newcardreader.

And even then, I had problems.  Linux saw the cardreader but not the card. 
I fiddled and then discovered I needed to configure things so it would see 
more than one of the card options.  SOmething about setting the number of 
luns,  I found it in a text about using multi-card readers with Linux.

I did what the article said, and bam, the cardreader worked.

It also solved the problem I had of not being able to see the microSD card 
in my Sansa Fuze when the latter was mounted.  It was the same issue.

So if this problem came up because of new hardware, or a new install of 
Linux, I'd look into this LUNs business.

   Michael

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Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-11-04 17:10 -0800
  Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Bill Marcum <bill@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-11-05 03:29 -0500
    Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2012-11-05 14:19 -0600
      Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? philo  <"philo  "@privacy.net> - 2012-11-05 15:12 -0600
        Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-11-06 04:12 -0800
          Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? philo  <"philo  "@privacy.net> - 2012-11-07 11:37 -0600
  Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-11-05 19:21 -0500
    Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-11-06 04:16 -0800
  Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2012-11-07 08:39 -0600
    Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-11-10 08:44 -0800

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