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Re: Compact Flash card partitioning
« on: June 26, 2004, 03:09:51 AM »
Yup..definitley weird.
 Have you added anything to the IDE chain?
 Some CF cards like to be the only device on the cable. :pissed:

 I had fun and games getting my CF to partition, and that was under 3.1 ( my OS3.9 CD has gone walkies, I found the case, but as is always the way, it`s empty !)
 Whatever I tried, I couldn`t get the partitions to show up ready for formatting. Installed a filesystem, partitioned the CF card, saved the changes and rebooted..still nothing.
 
 In the end I just thought "what haven`t I pressed ?".. Lowlevel format. I thought using that went out with the ark, but it did the trick.
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