IIRC, I think that I read somewhere that the Panasonic 4/3rds cameras can read
and reformat a CF card in this condition. Supposedly, after the Panasonic
reformat you can then reformat in your Olympus E-510. Any camera dealers near
enough to give this a try?
Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne Harridge
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 18:39
Subject: Re: [OM] Strange CF Card behaviour
>
> > Andrew Fildes <> wrote:
> >
> > Your cameras hate PCs of course.
> > Never ever format on the pooter, mate.
>
> Well it was formatted in the camera (E-510 I think) when I first
> got the card, it was only after it gave me "card error" that I
> started looking at it in the PC.
>
> I sort of expected that if the card can work ok in the PC then
> it is not a faulty card and that the camera should be able to
> format the card regardless of how it was previously formatted.
>
> ...Wayne
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