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Curious MemoryStick problem - help!
Jan. 29th, 2009 02:29 pmAnyone familiar with these little Sony Flash storage cards?
My current phone - pending an OS update for my Nokia Communicator E90 - is an elderly SonyEricsson P910i. This takes MemoryStick Pro Duo cards; it came with a 32MB one.
As it happens, I also currently have a Sony CyberShot DSC-W115 camera, which takes the same cards.
A while ago, I bought on eBay a bigger card for my phone - a 2GB Sony card. Googling suggested that this was the biggest the phone could handle and it was only about £10. Snag is, I couldn't get it to work. The phone just says "card corrupt". I thought maybe 2G was too much for this pre-3G pre-Wifi smartphone, but since I now have the camera to try, I've dug it out again.
The phone reads the camera's 1GB card fine. The cards are identical, except the camera's is a Mark2 card, meaning it can also support faster operation. Both are Sony-branded, whereas the little blue one that came with the phone is a SanDisk unit.
Now I discover that the camera can't read my card either. It says "reinsert card" about 3 times, then next time "error formatting card" - and repeats this cycle endlessly.
For my laptop, I have an external multiformat reader. This can take both the SD-card sized MS Duo cards and orIginal Sony Memory Stick cards, the size of a strip of chewing gum. The reader copes with the 32MB and 1GB cards natively, but doesn't respond at all to my 2GB card. Neither Windows nor Linux can see anything there.
Unless I insert the 2G stick into my Duo-to-original convertor, which is an empty shell in full stick-of-gum size. Then the card mounts and reads fine.
WTF is going on? How come I can't read the card except through a convertor? That shouldn't be possible, should it?
Just in case it was a partitioning problem, I've removed the partitions on the card with Linux - but now, even through the convertor, I can't create new ones. Or at least, it creates them, but then can't see the ones I've created. I have another, MS-only cardreader somewhere. I shall dig that out and try again.
I am beginning to suspect I have bought a duff card here.
My current phone - pending an OS update for my Nokia Communicator E90 - is an elderly SonyEricsson P910i. This takes MemoryStick Pro Duo cards; it came with a 32MB one.
As it happens, I also currently have a Sony CyberShot DSC-W115 camera, which takes the same cards.
A while ago, I bought on eBay a bigger card for my phone - a 2GB Sony card. Googling suggested that this was the biggest the phone could handle and it was only about £10. Snag is, I couldn't get it to work. The phone just says "card corrupt". I thought maybe 2G was too much for this pre-3G pre-Wifi smartphone, but since I now have the camera to try, I've dug it out again.
The phone reads the camera's 1GB card fine. The cards are identical, except the camera's is a Mark2 card, meaning it can also support faster operation. Both are Sony-branded, whereas the little blue one that came with the phone is a SanDisk unit.
Now I discover that the camera can't read my card either. It says "reinsert card" about 3 times, then next time "error formatting card" - and repeats this cycle endlessly.
For my laptop, I have an external multiformat reader. This can take both the SD-card sized MS Duo cards and orIginal Sony Memory Stick cards, the size of a strip of chewing gum. The reader copes with the 32MB and 1GB cards natively, but doesn't respond at all to my 2GB card. Neither Windows nor Linux can see anything there.
Unless I insert the 2G stick into my Duo-to-original convertor, which is an empty shell in full stick-of-gum size. Then the card mounts and reads fine.
WTF is going on? How come I can't read the card except through a convertor? That shouldn't be possible, should it?
Just in case it was a partitioning problem, I've removed the partitions on the card with Linux - but now, even through the convertor, I can't create new ones. Or at least, it creates them, but then can't see the ones I've created. I have another, MS-only cardreader somewhere. I shall dig that out and try again.
I am beginning to suspect I have bought a duff card here.
