SUCCESS!!
You get about 460 RAW+BASIC pictures on a 4GB card.
HOW TO:
- Open Disk Utility and do "Get Info" on this drive to see which device it is (eg: /dev/disk1)
- If the drive is formatted somehow, unmount, not eject, the drive/partitions (eg, for each of them, in the Terminal) :
Code:
sudo umount /Volumes/WHOLE-DRIVE-OR-PARTITION-NAME
- In the Terminal, create a correct and optimized filesystem in the whole drive, using the raw device for the disk indicated by Disk Utility (
change the drive device parameter in the following).
THIS ERASES THE WHOLE DRIVE:
Code:
newfs_msdos -v UNTITLED -S 512 -c 64 -F 32 -m 0xf8 -k 0x6 -o 63 -i 0x1 /dev/rdisk1
(the optimization is the cluster size, the fix is to the bad layout created by Disk Utility or defaulted BSD newfs_msdos).
That creates a card without partition table, I'll check about doing the similar thing also with a partition table (for what?).
Maybe creating a partitioned scheme with Disk Utility is safer, as this might leave some free space around the filesystem also for an MS-DOS scheme.
The D50 accomplished bursts of 3 pictures in RAW+BASIC with a takeMS 133x 4GB SD card.
Use at your own risk. If you lose pictures, it's your fault.
If you unmount and reformat the wrong disk/partition, it's also your fault.