On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 16:41, ext Laurent MARTIN wrote: > > Formatting MMC with 770 will probably destroy all your > > partitions, because I noticed one case when 770 couldn't format a > > usable > > MMC when it didn't zero the partition table first (so I will make it > > zero the partition table before repartitioning and formatting, to > > ensure > > that a usable MMC can be always formatted). > That's interesting becuse I'm now trying to reformat my 1GB RSMMC > card, and I'm not able to do it using the built-in file manager of my > N770: it fails with something like "corrupted MMC card". How do I > fully "zero reset" the partition table? What I've done on my Linux PC: Yes, that's precisely the problem I encountered, too. I will fix it for the final release. > - "fdisk /dev/sdb" > - remove all partitions > - create a new partition (type 6) using the whole space > - write the new partition table and exit > - format using "mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1" > Using this, I'm then able to use the RSMMC on the N770 (including > creating a swap file using the GUI) but I cannot reformat the RSMMC > card with the file manager: I still get the same error message :-/ > Any good advice about this? TIA. First, do 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 count=1' (make sure that the 'of' device is correct!). After that it should format correctly with the 770. BR; Kimmo
