Jolan-

Thanks for replying.

Jolan Luff <jolan@enteract.com> writes:

> yes. partition it with fdisk and format it with newfs_msdos.

OK, I've repartitioned with fdisk.  Here is some output:

# fdisk /dev/rwd1
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 1000 heads: 16 sectors/track: 32 (512 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1000 heads: 16 sectors/track: 32 (512 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: sysid 6 (Primary 'big' DOS, 16-bit FAT (> 32MB))
    start 0, size 512000 (250 MB), flag 0x80
        beg: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  1
        end: cylinder  999, head  15, sector 32
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>

But this doesn't seem to work:

# newfs_msdos /dev/rwd1
newfs_msdos: Cannot open `/dev/rwd1': No such file or directory
# newfs_msdos /dev/rwd1a
newfs_msdos: Cannot open `/dev/rwd1a': Device not configured

> you can do the same thing under windows 2000 very easily...

How do you do this with windows 2000?

I'm running 1.5.2 GENERIC_LAPTOP on i386 for the examples above.

-russ

> On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Russell McManus wrote:
> 
> > I've upgraded to a microdrive, and I'd like to start using
> > the CF card that I previously used for NetBSD on hpcmips in
> > a digital camera.
> >
> > Is there any way to reformat a CF card with a FAT partition
> > under NetBSD?  I've done some googling, no dice so far.
> >
> > Any ideas appreciated, even for win2000, if it comes to that.
> >
> > -russ
> >
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