CF Card Corruption (was "Invalid Node Structure")

[William Damkoehler]

Gurus.

Faced with the "Invalid Node Structure" warning, I pulled a 1GB Compact 
Flash card from my camera, slipped it into a PC card, formatted it for 
Mac OS, and backed up my dying HD to the CF card. So far no problem.


Then I installed OS 8.6 onto the CF card, chose it as the startup disk, 
unplugged the dying HD, and restarted. No problem. My 1400 booted up 
silently from the CF card. Nice.


I then shut it down, re-plugged the HD, restarted, and copied some 
desktop items and some extensions from the dying HD into the system on 
the CF card and shut it down again. I unplugged the HD and restarted.


Nothing but a grinning happy Mac! I hit the reset button and tried to 
startup from my recovery disk. Nothing but a goofily grinning happy Mac 
forever. It wasn't until I popped out the PC card containing the CF 
card that I was able to boot the 1400 up with the boot disk. It even 
starts up from the dying HD, but only without the CF card inserted.


But, and here's the rub, whenever I push the CF card into the slot: 
nothing. I can't get it to be recognized by the 1400 at all, either 
before a startup (happy Mac just grins at me) or after ("Cannot use 
disk 'Flash Drive' because a system error has occurred" -- no icon on 
the desktop.) I took the CF card to my iMac, plugged it into my USB 
card reader and the icon never appeared on that desktop either; 
although, when I pulled the card out of the reader I got a dialog box 
saying I hadn't properly put the item away. How could I? It never 
appeared on the desktop.


Last resort: I plugged the card back into my camera and tried to 
reformat it there. "Card Error." Can't reformat.


So, I have a 1GB CF card that is unrecognizable by two different 
computers and one camera. Any suggestions as to how I can revive this 
sucker?


-Bill


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Re: 520c connectivity problems

[Erich Zechar]

On Jun 15, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Jeff Hubatka wrote:


What's gone is seeing System 7 or 8 with OSX. You can still see OSX  
from System 7 or 8.


Alternate that works for me with my 540c and iMac G4 and TiBook and  
Pismo:


Create a new user on the G4. I have users for all my computer names.
Make sure that you change permissions on the Drop Box so that  
anyone (you) can put files in there. Maybe make an alias of it on  
your desktop.

Find out the IP address of the G4 (System Preferences/Network/TCP-IP)
On the 520c, open Chooser. Use the Connect via IP button and type  
in the IP address of the G4. In the connection box, connect as  
whatever new user and password you just created. Now you'll be able  
to see the Drop Box in that user's Home folder. Open that and  
you're sharing files.
It's an extra step to copy a file into the Drop Box, but that's the  
free way of doing things. Shareway IP just cut their price in about  
half when they learned that OSX could no longer connect via AFP/AT,  
expecting a lot of new customers from the LEM-users out there.



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and remove all doubt."

(Abraham Lincoln)




Thanks for this simple and elegant solution. I can't justify spending  
$29 to do all this, but it's worth holding on to my old book if I can  
do the simple things free.


Erich



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