[Novalug] Formatting SD card

[Ken Kauffman]

mkfs -t vfat

Could still be trashed.

K

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Tom Gutnick <tag at sunny-banana.com> wrote:

>  Interesting problem:  my Palm T|X trashed the 2GB SD card that was in
> it.  Now attempting to reformat by the Palm results in an error.  And if I
> try to format it under Windows XP, it gets most of the way through the
> process and then fails in an error.  Is there a Linux command (preferably
> under Ubuntu or Knoppix) which will unconditionally format the card?  Or is
> the card a write-off?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
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