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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- 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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