Formatting SD Memory Cards

[Bill Stanley]

On 11/15/2012 09:22 AM, Graham Todd wrote:
> I have a Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ10 camera that takes SD memory cards,
> and won't work at all without one.
>
> I have three 4 gig cards, any and all of which gives a "Memory Card
> error" message when inserted into the camera an turned on. According to
> the manual troubleshooting info., this could be to the card being not
> recognised by the camera and it suggests getting the card formatted by
> the camera once more.
>
> However, I can't raise the Menu in order to get the card Formatted; it
> is simply stuck on "Memory card error".  I have tried to use Gnome
> Format (to see if it makes any difference) but I'm not getting anywhere.
>
> Does anyone know of any software that runs under Ubuntu 12.04 that
> formats the SD memory cards *efficiently* for use with the Panasonic
> LUMIX DMC-FZ10 range of cameras?
>
> --Graham Todd

I'm not quite sure of what device you want to do the formatting.  The 
computer is the wrong device to do this.  The formatting should be done 
by the camera and not the computer.  There has to be somewhere in the 
camera to do the proper formatting.

Bill Stanley