SD Card only fills halfway

[Madison Kelly]

William O'Higgins wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:13:09PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>>Just for giggles, have you tried what would happen if you reformatted it 
>>or, better yet, tried reformatting it as ext{2|3}? I imagine you won't 
>>want to leave it that way if you are using the card in a camera or on a 
>>MS machine but it would be interesting to see if the problem persists.
> 
> 
> I am loathe to do this, because one of the purposes of this card is to
> go in my MP3 player.  Definitely a last resort - though I might be able
> to live with a partitioned device that is half ext2 and half vfat - but
> first and foremost it must work in the MP3 player.
> 
> 
>>Off hand though I can't think of a particular reason why this would 
>>happen. Maybe a driver problem? Doubt it though... Have you tried 
>>copying files to it from a MS machine? I know that again isn't what you 
>>care to do over time but as a way of seeing if the media itself is okay.
> 
> 
> Good thought - luckily (?) I have a Windoze machine handy and I tried it
> out.  Windoze "cannot create the file or directory", and it shows the
> same general behavior - half full, but unwilling to take more data.

Is it under warranty? Sounds to me like it's bad hardware.

Madison

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