4gig cf cards- mount problems Options

[arthuregg]

So in the effort to create a an amazing little workstation (and to decrease ipod envy) I got myself a 4gig cf card (hitachi 4gig microdrive).

I'm curious if i managed to get the correct one- as the one I have is being stubbern. It mounts on my desktop just fine, but refuses on the zaurus. While the card manager sees it as "anonmous memory" attempts to mount it (mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/cf) fail. attempting to fdisk it, doing some thing like:

fdisk -l /dev/hda

nets me nothing, while

fdisk /dev/hda

fails to open the device.

does anybody have any experience trying to get one of these cards to work that can point me in the right direction? I've tried mounting it both under cacko1.21 and oz3.5.5 and 3.3.6

[Omicron]

The one I use is

Model HMS360404D5CF00
Part Number: 13G1766

It is a Hitachi 4GB MicroDrive white label.

The White label drives I got came from the Creative MUVO player, but supposedly Creative (or Hitachi) changed the drive do that it wouldn't work.

The instructions (HOW-TO) I gave in the link in my previous post is so that it works WITH windows, but you DON'T need windows, as everything is done on the Zaurus.

Take a look at that again and I recommend following all the directions beginning to end. You should end up with a drive that works great on the Z in one huge partition and is setup for FAT32.

How it will work with linux PC, I don't know, but if you do all that then at least it should work with the Z flawlessly. I have done several of them and the all work great.

Feel Free to PM me if you get stuck or if you post and get no response.

BTW, before I created the HOW-TO I had a real problem getting them working with the Z, so don't b discouraged. I just hope the part numbers match up.

UPDATE: I was just re-reading your post and noticed that fdisk doesn't even work in zaurus, which is not good as that is the second step (first being su - root). I am guessing that you may have a non-compatible-CF drive (as mentioned earlier) or a defective one. Either way, you might be able to send it back to the seller for another one if it is defective or if they have one with the correct part number(depending on seller and problem). You could also try mounting it as /dev/hda1, since SD is considered mmcda1.

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