[BL] parallel port memory card reader
David Moberg
davidjmoberg at lycos.com
Thu Apr 7 22:40:37 EDT 2005
----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan at sdf.lonestar.org>
> Can the parport adaptor be used somehow with BL2 as an external
> hard drive? If not, DOS is fine.
I bet it uses paride or a similar driver. It probably acts like a
parallel port hard drive. Try the relevant HOWTOs for paride, or
maybe the Parallel HOWOT.
> Our problem is that the camera did not seem to like the format that
> came on the 10MB card which was in the PCMCIA adaptor. What format
> would a camera want? We could try to format it with BL3 fdisk via
> the PCMCIA adaptor. The camera told us it was formatting but it
> did not succeed.
It may not take that size/type of card. Is the card writable? Usually
cameras like one partition that fills the whole disk, formatted as
msdos or vfat. Usually they prefer FAT16/32 formats from DOS or Windows
tools. If the card has nothing that you want, use dd if=/dev/zero to
wipe it clean, then use DOS or Windows format, Windows preferably.
David
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