I am returning a faulty Integral CF card for replacement but would like to understand the nature of the issue. When inserting CF card into Kingston FCR-HS3-0 card reader the file system does not mount it although eventually after long delay it comes up as FAT32 file system.
On GParted I attempt to re-partition it ... again to FAT32 which shouldn't be a problem.
My actions were to unmount, delete partition followed by Partition NEW etc and then EDIT all operations.
This failed with the following report:-
GParted 0.25.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
Libparted 3.2 Delete /dev/sdd1 (fat32, 59.68 GiB) from /dev/sdd 00:00:05 ( SUCCESS )
calibrate /dev/sdd1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
path: /dev/sdd1 (partition) start: 16064 end: 125173439 size: 125157376 (59.68 GiB) delete partition 00:00:05 ( SUCCESS )
======================================== Create Primary Partition #1 (fat32, 29.84 GiB) on /dev/sdd 00:00:38 ( ERROR )
create empty partition 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS )
path: /dev/sdd1 (partition) start: 2048 end: 62584831 size: 62582784 (29.84 GiB) clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdd1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 32041861120 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 32042319872 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 8.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 32042377216 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) flush operating system cache of /dev/sdd 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) set partition type on /dev/sdd1 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS )
new partition type: fat32 create new fat32 file system 00:00:36 ( ERROR )
mkfs.fat -F32 -v -I -n "WAVEREP5 " /dev/sdd1 00:00:36 ( ERROR )
mkfs.fat 3.0.28 (2015-05-16) /dev/sdd1 has 64 heads and 32 sectors per track, hidden sectors 0x0800; logical sector size is 512, using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 62582784 sectors; drive number 0x80; filesystem has 2 32-bit FATs and 32 sectors per cluster. FAT size is 15272 sectors, and provides 1954756 clusters. There are 32 reserved sectors. Volume ID is bfdee38c, volume label WAVEREP5 . mkfs.fat: failed whilst writing FAT
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So what is likely to be wrong? Is there something else for me to try (before RMA ing the card to the manufacturer)?
I must add that my use of CF cards is for general data storage - I think it is a handy and robust way to archive files to removable media - in preference to memory sticks. I opt to format always to FAT32 because it is so universal.
There has never been any difficulty with other CF cards - I have used several other Integral CF cards with no problems.
Not understanding the full nature of a CF card, it would good to get an inkling of what might at fault.