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Title: SD corruption & formatting
Post by: novakane on October 16, 2003, 12:05:34 pm

I bought a 256MB Kingston SD chip. Straight out of the box I dropped it into the zaurus.  The zaurus seemed to recognize it and listed it under the system info -] storage, but I could see how to write to it.  I guessed I had to dump data on to the chip via a USB reader on my PC. I bought a reader and put the chip in. The reader can\'t seem to initialize the chip. Whenever I click on the removeable drive icon in windows it locks up explorer. I downloaded a SD formatting utility called widowmaker for the zaurus and tried to format it from there, but it didn\'t seem to do anything.  
Did I corrupt the chip by putting it in the zaurus without formatting it first? I\'m going to try and exchange the chip, but I\'m curious what I did wrong.

Thx

Title: SD corruption & formatting
Post by: novakane on October 16, 2003, 09:41:46 pm

I replaced the chip. No joy.
I replaced the reader and it worked like a charm. Proof once more that SanDisk gear is crap! Don\'t use sandisk readers or chips.