Gigabyte SD memory card

[Jon Dixon]

Just to throw more fuel on the fire...

Perhaps the reason it cannot read from the beginning (block 0) and
giving the I/O error could also be down to the 'what the hell size are
you?' problem.

Just a thought ...

Has anyone had experience with large 512MB/1GB CF cards, that may also
be able to help Tony here?

- Jon

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:32:49 +0000, Tony Arnold
<tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 11:43 +0100, Le grand pinguin wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 05:23:36AM -0500, strips wrote:
> > >
> > > > Dec 20 15:44:45 aca-vnt kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> > >
> > > Well.. either the kernel or your reader doen't support 1GB SD cards.
> > > Tried the reader on another linux kernel or maybe Windows?
> >
> > Hmm, is this really the relevant log entry? Somehow i think this
> >
> > 1) > kernel:  /dev/scsi/host4/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>Buffer I/O error on device
> >    > sda, logical block 0
> > 2) > Dec 20 15:44:45 aca-vnt kernel:  unable to read partition table
> >
> > is more important. Two questions to the OP:
> >
> >  - is this disk allready formated? (does it have a filesystem)?
> >    Without a filesystem automaounting can'T work :-)
> 
> Yes, and the card mounts fine on a Windows box.
> 
> >  - 'I/O error' sounds nasty - is it possible that the disk is damaged?
> >    (the kernel tries to read block 0 on the device (to read the partition
> >     table) but the device (disk) reports an error.
> 
> It's brand new and works on Windows and my Palm, so I assume the card is
> OK.
> 
> I had assumed the above messages were because it could not deal with the
> size of the disk, but ...
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
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