CF "Card not initialized", Fuji S601 Camera

I have a 3 or so year old Fuji S601 (IIRC) camera. It uses compact
flash. I had a 1 GB card, which sometimes was not enough. I recently
bought a 4 GB SandDisk card from NewEgg (new). It does not work and
the camera says "Card not initialized". My Linux computer sees the
card just fine, though it is obviously empty. Is the card incompatible
with the camera, or have I missed some initialization step?

thanks

i

Ignoramus15584 wrote:
> I have a 3 or so year old Fuji S601 (IIRC) camera. It uses compact
> flash. I had a 1 GB card, which sometimes was not enough. I recently
> bought a 4 GB SandDisk card from NewEgg (new). It does not work and
> the camera says "Card not initialized". My Linux computer sees the
> card just fine, though it is obviously empty. Is the card incompatible
> with the camera, or have I missed some initialization step?
>
> thanks
>
> i
Have you formatted the card _in your camera?_ If not, see your
instruction manual.
Allen

Ignoramus15584 wrote:
> I have a 3 or so year old Fuji S601 (IIRC) camera. It uses compact
> flash. I had a 1 GB card, which sometimes was not enough. I recently
> bought a 4 GB SandDisk card from NewEgg (new). It does not work and
> the camera says "Card not initialized". My Linux computer sees the
> card just fine, though it is obviously empty. Is the card incompatible
> with the camera, or have I missed some initialization step?
>
> thanks
>
> i

Older cameras may have a 2GB card limit (because of using the FAT file
system). Is there a switch on the card to make it behave as 2 x 2GB
cards?

David

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:21:21 GMT, David J Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.not-this-bit.nor-this-bit.co.uk> wrote:
> Ignoramus15584 wrote:
>> I have a 3 or so year old Fuji S601 (IIRC) camera. It uses compact
>> flash. I had a 1 GB card, which sometimes was not enough. I recently
>> bought a 4 GB SandDisk card from NewEgg (new). It does not work and
>> the camera says "Card not initialized". My Linux computer sees the
>> card just fine, though it is obviously empty. Is the card incompatible
>> with the camera, or have I missed some initialization step?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> i
>
> Older cameras may have a 2GB card limit (because of using the FAT file
> system). Is there a switch on the card to make it behave as 2 x 2GB
> cards?

Sounds like the stupid Microsoft **** at work again. No, I do not
think that there is such a switch, though I will check tonight. My
card is S602_Zoom, BTW. No big deal, I will just sell the card, I
think.

i

Ignoramus15584 wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:21:21 GMT, David J Taylor
[]
>> Older cameras may have a 2GB card limit (because of using the FAT
>> file system). Is there a switch on the card to make it behave as 2
>> x 2GB cards?
>
> Sounds like the stupid Microsoft s*** at work again. No, I do not
> think that there is such a switch, though I will check tonight. My
> card is S602_Zoom, BTW. No big deal, I will just sell the card, I
> think.
>
> i

Well, Microsoft have overcome that limit over ten years ago (using FAT32
in Windows 9X), and many more modern cameras can now use FAT32 formatting,
allowing the use of 4GB and bigger memory cards. You might want to ask
why the camera manufacturers have taken so long to catch up! Of course,
until recently, 4GB cards were something only the professionals could
afford.

By the way, there is a slightly non-standard way of formatting a 4GB card
with FAT-16 using 64K allocations. In Windows, type HELP FORMAT at the
command prompt. I don't know if your camera will support 4GB/FAT-16
though.

David

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:23:06 -0500, Ignoramus15584 wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:21:21 GMT, David J Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.not-this-bit.nor-this-bit.co.uk> wrote:
>> Ignoramus15584 wrote:
>>> I have a 3 or so year old Fuji S601 (IIRC) camera. It uses compact
>>> flash. I had a 1 GB card, which sometimes was not enough. I recently
>>> bought a 4 GB SandDisk card from NewEgg (new). It does not work and
>>> the camera says "Card not initialized". My Linux computer sees the
>>> card just fine, though it is obviously empty. Is the card incompatible
>>> with the camera, or have I missed some initialization step?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> i
>>
>> Older cameras may have a 2GB card limit (because of using the FAT file
>> system). Is there a switch on the card to make it behave as 2 x 2GB
>> cards?
>
> Sounds like the stupid Microsoft **** at work again. No, I do not
> think that there is such a switch, though I will check tonight. My
> card is S602_Zoom, BTW. No big deal, I will just sell the card, I
> think.
>
> i

FYI - up to 2gb cards use FAT16 (the practical limit of the filesystem,
though theoretically it can work at 4gb as well). Cards above 2gb are
FAT32. A 'df -T' should confirm that for you.