Re: [PLUG] Unknown partition table

2014-07-28 Thread Jason Barnett
I would recommend checking out this page for some useful ideas on recovering the data: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery I find it hard to believe that soda would damage a partition table on an SD card. Perhaps there is soda residue on one or more of the contacts that the reader in yo

Re: [PLUG] Unknown partition table

2014-07-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:59:07 -0700 Steve Dum dijo: >I suspect your device falls in the same category as many camera sd >cards. They expect you to format the drive with their software, and >assume thereafter exactly one format, the one they created. The >format is 'close enough' to allow other d

Re: [PLUG] Unknown partition table

2014-07-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:45:58 -0700 Denis Heidtmann dijo: >How does the medical device respond to a full card? Dunno. It has never happened and it probably never will happen. The device writes less than 1 MB each day and the card is nominally 2 GB, so it will take a very long time to fill the car

Re: [PLUG] Unknown partition table

2014-07-28 Thread Steve Dum
John, I suspect your device falls in the same category as many camera sd cards. They expect you to format the drive with their software, and assume thereafter exactly one format, the one they created. The format is 'close enough' to allow other devices to read it, but maybe not exactly what the

Re: [PLUG] Unknown partition table

2014-07-28 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 5:29 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I have a 2GB SD card that a medical device writes data to daily. I view > the data periodically myself to keep tabs on things. To do so I just > insert the card in the card reader slot in my laptop, whereupon it > appears grayed out in Xf

[PLUG] Unknown partition table

2014-07-27 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have a 2GB SD card that a medical device writes data to daily. I view the data periodically myself to keep tabs on things. To do so I just insert the card in the card reader slot in my laptop, whereupon it appears grayed out in Xfce's "Places" widget. By right-clicking I can mount it and then vie