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On 8 Oct 2009, at 22:10, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> With SD cards, often times there are no partitions. So if you create |
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> proper partitions sometimes it won't read in other devices/computers. |
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> (in linux terms that means you would format /dev/sda not /dev/sda1) |
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Uh, unless SD cards are seriously goofy - a possibility I concede - |
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then they're just a bunch of blocks. Partitions are just something you |
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- either you the user, or the manufacturer if they come pre-formatted |
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- put on there. |
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I'm pretty sure that my experience with at least one external hard- |
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drive (USB mass-storage device) was that formatting /dev/sda worked |
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just fine under Linux (and, I think OS X) but was not recognised by |
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Windows XP. IIRC mkfs.vfat gave a warning. When formatted by Windows |
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XP and remounted in Linux the drive was of the /dev/sda1 type of |
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partition layout. |
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This seems to be the opposite of how you describe, unless I am |
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misreading. |
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Stroller. |
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