How Do You Format Cf Cards?

[gbrocks]

I have an old 192 MB Simple Technologies CF card that I used in a Psion for years. The Psion died. I bought a Zaurus. Meanwhile the card had corruption problems towards the end of its use in the Psion. How can I format the card on the Zaurus?

[lardman]

https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Step-b...ing_for_newbies


Si

[gbrocks]

https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Step-b...ing_for_newbies


Si
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Thanks for the help. However, I'm having a problem:
I installed fdisk.
I inserted the CF card that I want to format, and I can see the CF card & its contents when I press the "Home" key on the Zaurus.
I launched the Terminal application.
I entered "su root" to change to root.
I entered "id" to verify the change to root.
I typed the first line of the directions from the URL you provided: "umount /dev/hda1"
I get the following message: "not found"


What should I do?

[jfv]

type at the terminal prompt:
more /etc/fstab
and tell us what it returns


Felipe

[gbrocks]

type at the terminal prompt:
more /etc/fstab
and tell us what it returns


Felipe
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It returns: "No such file or directory"

[jfv]

type at the terminal prompt:
more /etc/fstab
and tell us what it returns


Felipe
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It returns: "No such file or directory"
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This is very wierd. What Zaurus and what ROM do you have?

Felipe

[bluedevils]

or you could type

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df -k to list all current mounts regardless of rom or Zaurus.  I'm wondering if you mean that the command umount cannot be found or does it say that /dev/hda1 is not found?  You should also be able to

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umount /mnt/cf

[gbrocks]

type at the terminal prompt:
more /etc/fstab
and tell us what it returns


Felipe
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It returns: "No such file or directory"
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This is very wierd. What Zaurus and what ROM do you have?

Felipe
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Zaurus SL-C860.
ROM: 1.40 JP

[jfv]

You have the same model and ROM as I do. In my Zaurus, "more /etc/fstab" list the drives that can be automounted as in any standard linux. Try the "df -k" as suggested by bluedevils, but my guess is that somehow you've unmounted your home directory.

Felipe