[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: Memory card corrupted or unformatted

Thu Apr 20 12:06:39 EEST 2006

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 01:58, ext Kasper Souren wrote:
> > The N770 keeps on complaining "Memory card corrupted or unformatted" and
> > I can't find out how to format it on the Nokia.
> 
> http://serendipity.ravenwolf.de/index.php?/archives/11-extrootfs_1.0_arm.deb.html
> does the trick. Now it would still be nice to know why the mkfs.vfat
> from the laptop didn't work as expected.

Maybe there was some garbage on the MMC, confusing the 'mount' command.
Next time you could try to do something like

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<MMC-device> bs=512 count=1000

before the mkfs.vfat command, because I think mkfs does not clear the
device so well before formatting it.

There will be improvement for these issues in the OS2006 release
(including MMC partitioning support).

BR; Kimmo

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