CF "Card not initialized", Fuji S601 Camera

Ignoramus15584 wrote:
> I have a 3 or so year old Fuji S601 (IIRC) camera. It uses compact
> flash. I had a 1 GB card, which sometimes was not enough. I recently
> bought a 4 GB SandDisk card from NewEgg (new). It does not work and
> the camera says "Card not initialized". My Linux computer sees the
> card just fine, though it is obviously empty. Is the card incompatible
> with the camera, or have I missed some initialization step?
>
> thanks
>
> i

Older cameras may have a 2GB card limit (because of using the FAT file
system). Is there a switch on the card to make it behave as 2 x 2GB
cards?

David
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Ignoramus15584 wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:21:21 GMT, David J Taylor
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>> Older cameras may have a 2GB card limit (because of using the FAT
>> file system). Is there a switch on the card to make it behave as 2
>> x 2GB cards?
>
> Sounds like the stupid Microsoft s*** at work again. No, I do not
> think that there is such a switch, though I will check tonight. My
> card is S602_Zoom, BTW. No big deal, I will just sell the card, I
> think.
>
> i

Well, Microsoft have overcome that limit over ten years ago (using FAT32
in Windows 9X), and many more modern cameras can now use FAT32 formatting,
allowing the use of 4GB and bigger memory cards. You might want to ask
why the camera manufacturers have taken so long to catch up! Of course,
until recently, 4GB cards were something only the professionals could
afford.

By the way, there is a slightly non-standard way of formatting a 4GB card
with FAT-16 using 64K allocations. In Windows, type HELP FORMAT at the
command prompt. I don't know if your camera will support 4GB/FAT-16
though.

David
 >> Stay informed about: CF ""Card not initialized"", Fuji S601 Camera