Re: [tlug] Ubuntu won't format a 2GB SD card as fat 16

["emiddleton@example.com" <emiddleton@example.com>]

Dave M G wrote:
> Sigurd Urdahl wrote:
> > could you try to tail the systemlog (in a terminal run "tail -f 
> > /var/log/messages") and paste the lines that show up when you insert 
> > the card?
>
> $ tail -f /var/log/messages
> Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.609827] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] Add. 
> Sense: Unrecovered read error
> Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.609832] end_request: I/O 
> error, dev sdd, sector 0
> Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.616681] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] 
> Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
> Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.616687] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] 
> Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
> Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.616692] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] Add. 
> Sense: Unrecovered read error
> Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.616697] end_request: I/O 
> error, dev sdd, sector 0
> Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.623293] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] 
> Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
> Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.623298] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] 
> Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
> Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.623302] sd 4:0:0:2: [sdd] Add. 
> Sense: Unrecovered read error
> Mar 31 21:22:26 homebase kernel: [78739.623307] end_request: I/O 
> error, dev sdd, sector 0

Are you using a USB reader and does it support 2G SD cards.  I have gone 
through 3 readers in moving from <=1G cards to <=2G cards to SDHD cards.

Edward