Corrupted external card?? But not really...
 

I had a working 2gb miniSD card in my external slot.

I got a 8gb microSD card for xmas (yay!), and so pulled the 2gb card, and put the 8gb card into the nifty new Sandisk microSD->miniSD adapter.

Which, of course, didn't work. Wasn't recognized as being present or anything. THEN I found mention of that particular brand of adapter being crap...

So I put the 2gb miniSD card back in and... get the dreaded "memory card is incorrectly formatted or corrupted" error. Yikes!

Only -- if I plug the n810 into USB, I can see the card just fine from my computer, contents and all. So clearly it's NOT gone south on me.

I've tried rebooting a few times, but no dice. Should I be looking at partition table info somewhere on the n810 itself, or what? Help!

-Jennifer

Re: Corrupted external card?? But not really...
 

The N810 might just be more picky when it comes to filesystem errors than Windows XP.

Try running a full filesystem check and repair, either on the N810 (with the fsck.vfat utility) or from your Windows machine.

Re: Corrupted external card?? But not really...
 

Using the scan-and-repair thingy in WinXP produced no errors.

I can get the miniSD adapter to throw the exact same error now (which is a step up from being agnostic about its very existance before). But really, at this point I'd settle for getting the 2gb miniSD card to work as it was before.

-Jennifer

Re: Corrupted external card?? But not really...
 

You can try either backing up the card to your computer, formatting the card, and copy files back, or as root "fsck.vfat /dev/mmcblk1p1" on the device itself.

Edit: And the -a option in fsck will automatically repair problems. (though it never works for me...)

Re: Corrupted external card?? But not really...
 

I'm about to the reformat-and-try-again stage, but first:

I did the fsck.vfat line, and got:

open /dev/mmcblk1p1: No such file or directory

A cat of /proc/partitions shows the following (ignoring the entries for mtdblock[0-4]):

254 8 1966080 mmcblk1
254 9 1966072 mmcblk1p1
254 0 1966080 mmcblk0

In /dev/ I have /dev/mmcblk0, /dev/mmcblk0p1, and /dev/mmcblk1, but not blk1p1.

Format time?

-Jennifer

Re: Corrupted external card?? But not really...
 

Huh? /dev and /proc/partitions don't agree on which card has partitions? Or is it just a typo in your post?

Re: Corrupted external card?? But not really...
 

Not a typo! I just doublechecked -- that is exactly what my device is reporting. The 'internal' card/filesystem works just fine.

I have since reformated the card (FAT32, via Windows, because File Manager on the n810 only managed to mark it as unformatted according to WinXP... I didn't try telling it to format it again), and am currently copying my files back onto it.

I plan to reboot it at least once if not a few times once I get the files all copied back, and see if it recognizes it again. I'll let you know how it goes...

-Jennifer

Re: Corrupted external card?? But not really...
 

FINALLY success!

After unplugging the USB, it still complained that the card was corrupted. After reboot, it correctly sees it now.

I got a hunch, and turned it off entirely before swapping out the 2gb card for the newer 8gb card-w-adapter. (I swear I've done 'hot' swaps in the past with no problem...) The newer card is now also seen and correctly recognized.

And /proc/partitions and /dev/mmc* match up nicely once again.

-Jennifer

Re: Corrupted external card?? But not really...
 

if you have a digital camera try poppin the card in there and if there's an error cameras (especially panasonic it seems) are pretty good at formatting / repairing. make sure u backup your files though :)