On 8 Oct 2009, at 22:10, Paul Hartman wrote:
... With SD cards, often times there are no partitions. So if you create proper partitions sometimes it won't read in other devices/computers. (in linux terms that means you would format /dev/sda not /dev/sda1)
Uh, unless SD cards are seriously goofy - a possibility I concede - then they're just a bunch of blocks. Partitions are just something you - either you the user, or the manufacturer if they come pre-formatted - put on there.
I'm pretty sure that my experience with at least one external hard- drive (USB mass-storage device) was that formatting /dev/sda worked just fine under Linux (and, I think OS X) but was not recognised by Windows XP. IIRC mkfs.vfat gave a warning. When formatted by Windows XP and remounted in Linux the drive was of the /dev/sda1 type of partition layout.
This seems to be the opposite of how you describe, unless I am misreading.
Stroller.
