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General Discussion / CF formatting problem

« on: September 20, 2004, 07:22:04 pm »

Thankyou Yassen. My card is corrupt because a program crashed while writing to it.

If I insert the CF card now, the OS locks up.

To get around this, I kill the cardmgr process - so the card is not mounted.

But even continuing from there, the steps dont work. Any ideas?

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General Discussion / CF formatting problem

« on: September 16, 2004, 06:51:05 am »

I tried formatting my CF card using the howto on this site, but fdisk says that /dev/hda is an invalid argument.

Note that I am killing the cardmgr service first, as any attempt to mount the card just locks up the system.

Thank you for listening!

unholy

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General Discussion / SL-5600 having midlife crisis.

« on: September 14, 2004, 12:56:18 pm »

Ok, I didnt realize that the terminal application can be installed without open zaurus.

Is it possible to format the card from here?

Remember, thr system crashes when I insert the card, so I have to disable the auti mounting first.

How do I do these?

Regards,

unholy

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General Discussion / SL-5600 having midlife crisis.

« on: September 13, 2004, 06:24:24 pm »

Thank you both. In that case, how can I avoid this happening again? I believe the culprit was a 3rd party app. Should I just avoid these in future?

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General Discussion / SL-5600 having midlife crisis.

« on: September 13, 2004, 05:18:22 pm »

Thanks for your reply doseas.

I dont think I can access the terminal on the 5500. I just have the default software. I dont have a CF card reader for the PC either.

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General Discussion / SL-5600 having midlife crisis.

« on: September 12, 2004, 08:11:57 pm »

Ive just realized that my Zaurus is actually an SL-5500 with ROM version 2.39 for correctness sake.

Ive tried a hard reset, and now whenever I put in the CF card, the whole thing locks up.

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General Discussion / SL-5600 having midlife crisis.

« on: September 12, 2004, 04:52:55 pm »

My Zaurus crashed on me the last day. I had to take out the battery. When I restarted, it wouldnt boot up fully unless I ripped out the CF card.

Now when I put the card in, it either locks up the OS, or it doesnt acknowledge it.

(by acknowledge, I mean that although the icon comes up on the taskbar, the files are not displayed in the documents tab, and the applications no longer give the option of saving to the CF card.

I was considering putting OpenZaurus on my 5600, but the image has to be put on the CF card first, so is seems that I am snookered! Is this fixable? I have no important data so I'm willing to try anything.

Apologies if this has been asked before - I have searched, but due to my newbie ness, I either havent understood replies, or dont know if they apply to my situation.

Regards,

unholy!