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Formatting an SD card for Supercard under Linux?

Started by Sonny_Jim, August 03, 2006, 02:21:42 PM

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Sonny_Jim

Does anyone know how?  I thought that maybe mkfs.vfat /dev/sd(whatever) would do it but apparently not.   Any idea what sort of flags I should give mkfs?

Thanks

kaymm2

it's mkfs.msdos -F 16 /dev/sdaXX

you format in Fat16.  sdaXX would be flash card, mine in something like /dev/sda1