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Simon Williams wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I recently bought a 1Gb Kingston MMC Plus card for my Nokia 9500. I am > not aware of any cards 1Gb or less that don't work with the 9500, and > someone reported that this exact card worked with theirs (as well as > several companies listing them as specifically compatible). > But my 9500 just doesn't want to detect it. > Unfortunately I don't have another card to test- so I suppose that it's > always possible that the MMC slot of my 9500 is broken in some way (I > sure hope not). I know someone else with a 9500 and a working (128Mb) > MMC card, but they are back in Tavistock and I'm not likely to go back > until Christmas. > > The 9500 is a bit stupid, and if the card is formatted wrong (by another > device or something), it will not even give you the option to format it. > I can't get the filemanager or backup system or anything to detect it- > they all say "card not ready". > > I've got a CF card which reads MMC/SD cards and a PCMCIA card which > reads CF cards. So I put the MMC card into that setup and it works fine > in Linux. I tried reformatting it and repartitioning it in serveral > different ways, but the 9500 still says "card not ready" and has it's > own format option greyed out. > > What is the standard format for MMC cards? I'm pretty sure it's just one > big fat16 partition, but I could be wrong. > > Does anyone have any other ideas I could try? > > Thanks > Simon Hi Simon, Rather than trying to give a specific filesystem to the card, do you think that zeroing it (ie wiping out *all* information on it, including any partition table it might have, etc, "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1024", for example) might help? That way, the card should be completely clean of *any* information and hopefully your Nokia will let you format it appropriately. Just a thought. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html