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Accessories / Formatting a 1GB SD card

« on: July 30, 2004, 04:39:54 pm »

I partitionned the card with fdisk on my PowerBook and can use it from my PowerBook (I no longer get the errors in the log file). But I can no longer mount it on my Zaurus. I tried both /dev/mmcda2 (as mmcda1 is the partition map) /dev/mmcda1 (in case the Zaurus does a translation), but I get:

mount: Mounting /dev/mmcda2 on /mnt/card failed: Invalid argument

This may be because the Debian/ppc fdisk created an Apple partition map (strange...). Where can I get fdisk for the Zaurus to try that instead? The link on http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=205 is no longer valid.

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Accessories / Formatting a 1GB SD card

« on: July 30, 2004, 06:33:47 am »

Also note that I've just tried the card (vfat formatted) on my PowerBook via a PCMCIA-SD adapter, and I have no problem with it.

Well, in fact, I had lots of errors reported in my kern.log file (on the PowerBook):

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[...]
Jul 30 01:30:57 ay kernel: hde: read_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jul 30 01:30:57 ay kernel: hde: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=1998847, sector=1998847
Jul 30 01:30:57 ay kernel: hde: read_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jul 30 01:30:57 ay kernel: hde: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=1998847, sector=1998847
Jul 30 01:30:57 ay kernel: ide2: reset: success
Jul 30 01:30:57 ay kernel: hde: read_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jul 30 01:30:57 ay kernel: hde: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=1998847, sector=1998847
Jul 30 01:30:57 ay kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 1998847
Jul 30 01:30:57 ay kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hde1, logical block 1998600
Jul 30 01:30:57 ay kernel: hde: read_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jul 30 01:30:57 ay kernel: hde: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=1998839, sector=1998839
[...]
with several reset per second... Could this be the same errors as in my Zaurus, except that the Zaurus linux kernel doesn't try to go round them?

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Accessories / Formatting a 1GB SD card

« on: July 29, 2004, 07:55:47 pm »

When the partition of a device changes you usually have to reload the module for the device to recognize the changes.

Does this mean that I need to reboot?

Also note that I've just tried the card (vfat formatted) on my PowerBook via a PCMCIA-SD adapter, and I have no problem with it. So, it seems that the partitioning is correct after all and there are some compatibility problems with the Zaurus.

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Accessories / Formatting a 1GB SD card

« on: July 29, 2004, 02:46:48 pm »

After running fsck.ext2 (well, I don't know if this is the cause), I managed to reformat the partition to vfat. But anyway, I also got I/O errors.

I did some tests in the train: I noticed that I could create files and read them, but a "ls" showed nothing... until I unmounted and remounted the SD card. The card was sometimes automatically remounted as read-only (ro). With fsck.vfat (IIRC), I also had an error concerning the partitions.

Now I'm back home, and I no longer noticed the above problems, but during a recursive (remote) copy to the SD card, it was remounted as read-only.

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Accessories / Formatting a 1GB SD card

« on: July 29, 2004, 03:06:23 am »

I've just had a 1GB ATP SD card, which I reformatted to ext2, but I quickly had I/O errors. I'd like to reformat it to vfat to test it, but I get the following error:

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# mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcda1
mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)
mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file system
I can't use the -F 32 option either (error mkfs.vfat: unable to allocate space for FAT image in memory).

Any idea?

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Software / Scrolling problem with Opera after using Kino2

« on: July 27, 2004, 09:10:14 pm »

I've noticed that the problem disappears after the screen saver activates or after suspending the Z.

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Software / Scrolling problem with Opera after using Kino2

« on: July 27, 2004, 08:23:44 pm »

In fact, there are similar scrolling problems with other applications, like Netfront and Zeditor (but not with Terminal and Qkonsole).

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Software / Scrolling problem with Opera after using Kino2

« on: July 27, 2004, 07:59:10 pm »

After using Kino2, scrolling no longer works correctly in Opera 7.30, in particular the scrolling line by line (page by page is better): some rectangular parts of the screen are not redrawn. Quitting and restarting Opera has no effect; it seems that I need to reboot!

Does anyone have any information about this problem and if it can be solved?

Note: I have a Zaurus SL-C860 with the original ROM (1.40 JP).

TIA,

Vincent Lefèvre.