Re: [Gumstix-users] formatting a CF card

[Dave H. <dhy...@gm...>]

Hi Souhail,

> I have a CF card that i am trying to use with the gumstix, but apparently
> the formatting etc on it is causing the gumstix not to load properlly, does
> anyone have an idea what kind of program i should use to format the CF card,
> the windows format utility can not handle Fat16 and 521 Bytes/allocation
> blocks.

You probably don't want to use FAT16 anyways. It only supports small
media. For a CF card you should use FAT32. For cards under 1 or 2 Gb,
I think that the standard Windows formatting should work fine.

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Dave Hylands
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