Re: [Linux-7110-psion] 256Mb CF Card Problems - Disk not present

[<ben...@ya...>]

> 
> Has anyone been able to get a 256Mb CF (Sandisk)
card to work?

Yup. SanDisk Ultra 256MB on my 5mx pro, partitioned on
PC (is there 
some fdisk on EPOC?)...
Which device are you talking of?

In my (tinkering) with a CF card I've found the Psion
(S5 in my case) to be way more finicky than either my
digital camera, or my USB CF reader.

In my case everything can always read the CF fine
except the S5, which often just decides it's Corrupt.

To get around this without reformatting on the PC and
then again on the S5, I found the EShell app (from
Symbian I believe) to be excellent. Whenever my S5
believes the CF card is corrupt (because, say, I took
it out and put something on it, or switche on the
Psion without it inside), I just fire up eshell.exe
(which obviously has to live on the internal disk) and
attempt to format D drive (with the CF card NOT in the
Psion). That seems to trip it over to realise the CF
is just missing. If it registers as missing even after
inserting it, closing the door and then turning on the
Psion, I'd suggest either the CF door trigger is
stuffed, or the CF is indeed either corrupt or not
formatted for the EPOC.

Question of my own. How can you put more files onto
the EPOC partition (from say Knoppix, or even Windoze)
and have the Psion not believe the added files are corrupt?

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