Flash Disk (Margo)

[Jason Riker]

Margo,

I had this same problem with a SD card in a Sharp Zaurus PDA.  The only
way I was able to resolve it was to put the card back into a Windows
machine and let Windows format it.

Hope this helps.

Good Luck,

Jason

> When I plug it in now, it's picked up as a flash disk (good) however 
> the filesystem comes up as unknown or not recognised.
> 
> I have searched everywhere to find out the command to reformat the disk 
> as vfat in linux... perhaps its too basic a command to be in any faq. 
> Can anyone help.
> 
> Margo