From openzaurus-users Mon Sep 13 15:55:02 2004 From: "Bart Alberti" Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:55:02 +0000 To: openzaurus-users Subject: Re: [Openzaurus-users] How to repair mmc cards Message-Id: <000401c499aa$9465b500$2293480c () george> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=openzaurus-users&m=109509426526290 This is a question pertaining to these devices, too. I lost a USB key chain 128 Super Talent device /dev/sda by -- and this is what I think I did --- formatting as an extended partition without any primaries, a gross error. No body on the USB lists could help me and I got several e-mail from people who had lost their devices also. I asked specifically for a low level format gizmo and nobody said anything. Hint: I still do not know what to do but these are really scsi devices so maybe the scsi tool packages in the distribution (SuSE 9.0 & 9.1 for me) may have the answer. Otherwise I see the usual run of USB devices had FOUR partitions with very odd signatures (even Novell + Disk Manager + unknown). What I do is delete all the extraneous partitions (i.e. ALL of them) and use only DOS. This seems to work although for Zaurus you might want ext2fs since you won't be attaching that to Windows boxes (in general) I do not see that just too many fdisk routines would knock you out. WHAT did you do at the last one? Possibly the tables in the MBR are messed up. I am out of my depth here and I contribute in hope of getting someone in the know to speak up. Does the device SHOW anywhere as connected? check the /proc /system Bart Alberti bart@solozone.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Bunzendahl" To: Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 6:23 AM Subject: [Openzaurus-users] How to repair mmc cards > Hello all, > does somebody know, how to repair or low-lever-format mmc-cards. > There is an mmc 256MB Sandisk - maybe I did too many mkfs and fdisks to /dev/ > sdd .... > Everytime I will write the fdisk-actions to the disk, reread the disk via > fdisk, I got nothing - no filesystems, no partitions, nothing. > > It isn't a sd-card, so I hope somebody knows a way to repair it. > > Thanks a lot. > > Daniel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 > Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on > who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. > Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php > _______________________________________________ > Openzaurus-users mailing list > Openzaurus-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openzaurus-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ Openzaurus-users mailing list Openzaurus-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openzaurus-users