Olympus - C-7070 - XD card - problems

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I love the Oly C-7070, I hate the XD card. Bought one 512 meg card for it,
just to fill the hole, the 32 meg card is a waste of money.

Problems. I will skip the problems and go directly to reformatting the XD
card on the PC, don't ask for the intervening steps.

Have tried FAT 16, FAT32, now using a hex editor to clear all the bits to
00, hope to make the card behave.

Anyone have insights into the right cluster size, and the right FAT version.

C-7070 works fine with the CF card. Why the hell did they put in that evil
XD card?

--
Rudy Benner

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leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being
attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and
exposing the country to greater danger "

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"Mike Murphree" <w4lna@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:w4lna-341E01.10550613082005@ispnews.usenetserver.com...
> In article <11frsmch21glv30@corp.supernews.com>,
> "Rudy Benner" <newsgroups@rudybenner.com> wrote:
>
>> I love the Oly C-7070, I hate the XD card. Bought one 512 meg card for
>> it,
>> just to fill the hole, the 32 meg card is a waste of money.
>>
>> Problems. I will skip the problems and go directly to reformatting the XD
>> card on the PC, don't ask for the intervening steps.
>>
>> Have tried FAT 16, FAT32, now using a hex editor to clear all the bits to
>> 00, hope to make the card behave.
>>
>> Anyone have insights into the right cluster size, and the right FAT
>> version.
>>
>> C-7070 works fine with the CF card. Why the hell did they put in that
>> evil
>> XD card?
>
>
> Format it in the camera, doing it on the PC is asking for trouble.
> Bought a C-8080 a couple of weeks ago and sent it back. Still have the
> 512 MB xD card. Need another one?
>
> Mike

You are right, works best when done on the camera, but not always. If you
make the mistake of filling the card, it goes nuts. Then the fun begins. I
can see a firmware upgrade coming to cover some of these little gems.

I think I will stick with the CF cards, they seem to be painless.

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In article <MPG.1d69234bb57d5d4f98accd@news.supernews.com>,
Alfred Molon <alfredREMOVE_molon@yahoo.com> wrote:

> In article <11fscrv8u6fb109@corp.supernews.com>, Rudy Benner says...
>
> > > Format it in the camera, doing it on the PC is asking for trouble.
> > > Bought a C-8080 a couple of weeks ago and sent it back. Still have the
> > > 512 MB xD card. Need another one?
> > >
> > > Mike
> >
> > You are right, works best when done on the camera, but not always. If you
> > make the mistake of filling the card, it goes nuts. Then the fun begins. I
> > can see a firmware upgrade coming to cover some of these little gems.
> >
> > I think I will stick with the CF cards, they seem to be painless.
>
> Never heard about this problem, but nobody forces you to use xD cards. I
> basically rely on CF cards with my 8080 and have a 128MB Olympus xD card
> inside to fill the slot, which I almost never use.

In my 8080 I use a 1GB CF card normally but keep a 512MB xD card which I
almost never use except for panoramas. The Panorama function only works
with an Xd card and the auto exposure lock and guide lines, while not
really necessary, are kinda nice. I have never had a problem formating
either card with the camera and usually use a card reader to upload the
data.

--
-Ernie-

"There are only two kinds of computer users -- those who have
suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure, and those who will."

Have you done your backup today?