1 Topic by marwayusuf

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Topic: memory card format problem

I have a mobile memory card and I'm trying to format it. When I insert it into usb (via reader of course) it's not seen as a removable media. But it's seen by gparted as an unmounted device. When I try to format I get an error. And attached the saved details of operation. I'm running on ubuntu 11.10. I can't format it on windows also.

GParted 0.8.1 --enable-libparted-dmraid

Libparted 2.3

Format /dev/sdb1 as fat32  00:00:07    ( ERROR )
       
calibrate /dev/sdb1  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
       
path: /dev/sdb1
start: 40
end: 7962623
size: 7962584 (3.80 GiB)
set partition type on /dev/sdb1  00:00:04    ( ERROR )
libparted messages    ( INFO )
       
Error fsyncing/closing /dev/sdb: Input/output error
Input/output error during write on /dev/sdb
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2 Reply by gedakc

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Re: memory card format problem

It is possible that there is a hardware problem with the device, or a loose connection.

After the error occurs, open a terminal window and enter the following command:

dmesg

Then search though the last 20 or so lines and see if any hardware errors are occurring.

3 Reply by marwayusuf

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Re: memory card format problem

Thanks a million.