Problem on partition SD card

[Yuandan Zhang]

Hi,
I am curious what do you use to read SD card?  I have a SD slot on the
HPnx5000 laptop, it works on windows, but there is no linux driver for SD
slot. I use USB card reader to access the SD card. The SD slot is a wate on
LINUX
Yuandan

On 5/10/06, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Fialed to partition a SD card.
>
> mini SD
> kingmax 128M
> FC5_64
> ==========
>
>
> # fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2              14        1734    13823932+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda3            1735        3008    10233405   83  Linux
> /dev/sda4            3009        9729    53986432+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            3009        3262     2040223+  82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 127 MB, 127139840 bytes
> 8 heads, 32 sectors/track, 970 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 256 * 512 = 131072 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1         969      123983+   6  FAT16
>
>
> # fdisk /dev/sdb
> You will not be able to write the partition table.
>
>
> # fdisk /dev/sdb1
>
> Command (m for help): d
> No partition is defined yet!
>
> Command (m for help): n
> Command action
>    e   extended
>    p   primary partition (1-4)
> p
> Partition number (1-4): 1
> First cylinder (1-968, default 1):
> Using default value 1
> Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-968, default 968): +50M
>
> Command (m for help): n
> Command action
>    e   extended
>    p   primary partition (1-4)
> p
> Partition number (1-4): 2
> First cylinder (383-968, default 383):
> Using default value 383
> Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (383-968, default 968):
> Using default value 968
>
> Command (m for help): w
>
> Unable to write /dev/sdb1
>
>
> # dmesg -c
> ...
> usbcore: registered new driver libusual
> usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
> usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
> ...
> ....
> ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
> ppdev0: registered pardevice
> ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
> ppdev1: claim the port first
> ppdev2: claim the port first
> ppdev3: claim the port first
>
>
> Please advise how to partition the SD card.  TIA
>
> B.R.
> SL
>
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