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5x00 Hardware / SD fdisk not working (Help???) (Advice???)

« on: June 14, 2004, 07:21:38 pm »

I had a similar problem with my Lexar 256 SD card. I wasn\'t able to write a partition table to the card.  I tried

umount /dev/mmcda1
e2fsck -c -c /dev/mmcda1

This reported a bad block at position 0 where the partition table is usually written. After no luck reformatting it on a card reader and a digital camera(suggested by
Lexar support), the card is now on it\'s way back to the manufacturer.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / I/O error on sd-card

« on: May 17, 2004, 06:41:46 pm »

I have had similar problems with my Lexar 256MB SD card.
After finishing a complete e2fsck -c -c  check on the card I found that I have one bad block, block 0!
Can anyone confirm that the card is basically screwed, since I can not get fdisk to write anything to block 0( without the first 4 blocks you can not write a filesystem) ?

I have tried both mmcsd modules (5500), even attempted to zero out the first block using dd, but with block 0 bad it fails to read the card.
Just seeing if there are any fdisk tricks that I haven\'t yet attempted on my 2 week old SD card