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ShiroiKuma

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« on: July 13, 2007, 10:18:18 am »
So I bought this 16gb Sandis card, swapped it for the 3200's internal microdrive. Used it for a day, no prob. Then something happened don't know what, and the card wouldn't work, the Z was locked.

So took it out again, and now I can't mount it / see it, on any computer that I've tried.

This is what dmesg says:
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Jul 13 16:01:36 debian kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
Jul 13 16:01:36 debian kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
Jul 13 16:01:37 debian kernel: pcmcia: request for exclusive IRQ could not be fulfilled.
Jul 13 16:01:37 debian kernel: pcmcia: the driver needs updating to supported shared IRQ lines.
Jul 13 16:01:37 debian kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2...
Jul 13 16:02:07 debian kernel: hde: no response (status = 0xd0)
Jul 13 16:02:42 debian kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2...
Jul 13 16:02:42 debian kernel: ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Jul 13 16:03:18 debian kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2...
Jul 13 16:03:18 debian kernel: ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Jul 13 16:03:47 debian kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2...and so on...

How can I fdisk the card if the need, assuming I can't fix what's wrong? I'm really at odds end here, have got this 16gb card and no way that I can think of how to use it.
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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2007, 11:56:07 am »
So far I've only found one German page which gives this sequence of error commands and states that that's the case when you hook up a harddrive with the cables wrongly connected.

This can't be the case obviously with a CF card...

How can I determine what's wrong?
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« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2007, 08:08:14 pm »
Maybe the card is just faulty.
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« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2007, 11:32:25 pm »
I think Trisoft experimented with swapping the MD for a CF card and went through a few CF cards and couldn't get one to work on a long-term basis (see this thread: https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=23002 ). It is possible to get a CF card working long-term (some successes have been reported), but you may have to go through a few cards. In the end I don't really think the speed increase is worth the risk of CF card destruction, but that's just my opinion.

I would try reformatting and repartitioning the card and try again, but your card may just be dead.
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« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2007, 11:37:57 pm »
The SanDisks usually have a pretty good warranty (as long as you don't have a bootleg one).  The UltraII and higher cards have a better warranty than the standard cards and usually have a no questions asked replacement warranty.  Did you have a swapfile or swap partition setup on your card before the failure?
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« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2007, 03:53:42 am »
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I would try reformatting and repartitioning the card and try again, but your card may just be dead.
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Yep, that's what I'm trying to do. Unfortunately can't access /dev/hdc after the card is inserted, so something is wrong...
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« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2007, 03:57:03 am »
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The SanDisks usually have a pretty good warranty (as long as you don't have a bootleg one).  The UltraII and higher cards have a better warranty than the standard cards and usually have a no questions asked replacement warranty.  Did you have a swapfile or swap partition setup on your card before the failure?
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Unfortunately bought it from some guy on some forum for cheap, but without an original receipt. So can't go to SanDisk.

I did all kinds of tests and it was fine when I bought it, it worked for a day, and now this...
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