Compact Flash card problems
Hi all!
Home brew Athlon 1100, 512 Mbs RAM, 80 Gb HD + 20 GB secondary, W98SE.
Have used a 64 Mb CF card, amongst others in Digi camera (Minolta Dimage 7) for some time and downloaded shots to two different laptops - no problems. Latest series of shots similarly d/l'd to laptop but decided to d/l direct to desktop via RCA Lyra parallel port card reader. Appeared to be OK but on looking at the photo's, one was split at about the 2/3 point. Tried to repeat the download of that particular shot but 'pooter' froze. Rebooted and found that the CF card showed 'garbage'. Not able to delete the garbled files nor to re-format the card. Put the card back in the camera and it gave a 'card error' message on all positions. .... Now for the really nasty bit .... Took the bad card out and put in a known 'good' card - and that gave a 'card error' message as well!!
Does anyone know WTH is happening here, please.?