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Re: [tlug] Ubuntu won't format a 2GB SD card as fat 16



Dave M G wrote:
Sigurd Urdahl wrote:
could you try to tail the systemlog (in a terminal run "tail -f /var/log/messages") and paste the lines that show up when you insert the card?

$ tail -f /var/log/messages
Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.609827] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.609832] end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.616681] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.616687] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.616692] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.616697] end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.623293] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.623298] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.623302] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error
Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.623307] end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0

Are you using a USB reader and does it support 2G SD cards. I have gone through 3 readers in moving from <=1G cards to <=2G cards to SDHD cards.


Edward


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