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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: frenchja on August 21, 2004, 06:08:16 am

Title: FDISK help :(
Post by: frenchja on August 21, 2004, 06:08:16 am

Hi guys,

I feel a bit lame  can any1 help me to fdisk and format my new CF card for rom for use? Basically if I try to do fdisk /dev/hda it reports unable to open ...  So what device is the CF card sits under?  Is there a way to tell?

I am using OZ 3.2 if thatr helps?

Take Care,

jamie

Title: FDISK help :(
Post by: lardman on August 21, 2004, 10:27:34 am

It should be 'fdisk /dev/hda'

Not sure why this doesn't work.

Si

Title: FDISK help :(
Post by: raybert on August 23, 2004, 01:13:21 pm

You have to unmount the card first.

    umount /mnt/cf

~ray

Title: FDISK help :(
Post by: iamasmith on August 26, 2004, 05:54:57 am

cat /proc/partitions

This should show you any devices and partitions that linux recognises (it won't show you the MTD devices for the flash).

Title: FDISK help :(
Post by: frenchja on August 26, 2004, 11:27:59 am

Cheers guys, hopefully I will get a chance the weekend to look at it to try the suggestions.

Thanks again,

J

Title: FDISK help :(
Post by: frenchja on August 26, 2004, 04:03:07 pm

confused, none of the suggestions helped and the cat /proc/partitions just produced major minor#blocks name, that is it!

Title: FDISK help :(
Post by: iamasmith on August 26, 2004, 04:35:31 pm

OK, if you aren't seeing anything in /proc/partitions then you either have a screwed ROM, duff card or there's something wrong with the CF port.

Check to make sure there's no fluff/bent pins if you can see into the slot.