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TuxGeek

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« on: October 05, 2004, 08:38:47 pm »
When I type

"#fdisk /dev/mmcda1" this error comes up.

Device contains neither a a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel.  Changes will remain in memory only, ....

When I try to format it through windows to put a fat partition on.  It just sits there.  Then I tryied it through the Command Prompt and this error came up.

C:\ format i:
Insert new disk for drive I:
and press enter when ready...
Error in IOCTL call.

lardman

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« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2004, 06:26:03 am »
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"#fdisk /dev/mmcda1" this error comes up.

Wrong!

# fdisk /dev/mmcda

Right!
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TuxGeek

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« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2004, 11:31:30 am »
I think i accidentaly typed 1 on the sotic page here.  Because I didn't on the Zaurus.