[LRflex] Re: Malfunction on a Digilux 3 ? Naw! Embedded Computer issues :)
- From: Bille Xavier F. <hot_billexf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:30:05 +0100
Richard,
In fact, things are worsening quick with a computer, for instance, if you plug
your SD card onto a computer running a LINUX distribution such as UBUNTU, your
card gets funny directories such as "lost+found", "recycle", etc.
Those are unavoidable.
Formatting a card is not a wizard trick, as long as you take the proper
parameters. A bit like the diskets of 720kb and 1.4Mb.
Mind you, a raw file of the Digilux 3 is 11 diskets of 3.5 inches, high
density.... Travelling back to the Nineties.
I should try to install a "puppy linux" on a SD card, and see if the Digilux 3
"boots" out of it :)
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Xavier F. BILLE
Maisons Alfort
France.
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> Subject: [LRflex] Re: Malfunction on a Digilux 3 ? Naw! Embedded Computer
> issues :)
> From: ilovaussiesheps@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:31:03 -0500
> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Greetings,
> I am quite glad you determined your intermittent camera 'failure' was due to
> something you had done and not that the camera was failing. I read an
> interesting article from MacWorld this week about one of their writer's
> experience tracking down a 'bug' in an email application he used routinely.
> Turns out the 'bug' was all his own doing: he had 'told' the app to behave in
> a certain way years earlier to solve an esoteric problem and now it was
> returning to mess up his inbox almost daily. The dirty little secret of Tech
> Support is the main cause of computer problems is the link between the seat
> and the keyboard! :-D
>
> The lesson I see coming from the experience you're sharing is that the advice
> we've all been given to ALWAYS format memory cards for any camera only in the
> camera they are used in Also Means don't format them in the computers we
> connect those cards to.
>
> I can't claim to have never violated this 'rule'!
> But, that doesnt make it not be good advice :-)
>
> Richard in Michigan
>
> _____________________________________
>
> My Sarcasm Fu Is Strong,
> Proceed With Caution. :-)
> _____________________________________
>
> On Feb 5, 2012, at 6:14 AM, Bille Xavier F. <hot_billexf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > Good day to all
> >
> >
> >
> > Paris, today, under snow, better stay inside wrapped around some heater...
> >
> >
> >
> > Since a while, I had some "error reading card" message at start up of my
> > beloved Digilux 3.
> >
> >
> >
> > The strange detail is that the problem occured on card of 2gb and on a
> > brand new Class 10 of 4gb.
> >
> >
> >
> > When the card got formatted on the camera, I could take 2 or 3 shots and
> > then randomly, at power up, I would get that nasty message.
> >
> >
> >
> > The cure was to open the card door and re-insert the card :
> >
> >
> >
> > http://xavierf.b.free.fr/Temp/P1010886.JPG (macro mode from Pana LX3,
> > Digilux speaks French)
> >
> >
> >
> > But it was troublesome as it would appear on a random mode and of course
> > when least expected. It was my chance that the Dragon was at least 3 layers
> > of parisian away from me, I have not missed much shots :
> >
> >
> >
> > http://xavierf.b.free.fr/Temp/L1090576_dev.jpg (Digilux3, Vario)
> >
> >
> >
> > To summarize the situation, I thought my Leica had faultered after 5 years
> > of use. Grumbling about it.....
> >
> >
> >
> > Then, it happened that the SD card of 4gb provoked a seizure of operation
> > on the LX3, a very interesting event (in a system test & commissionnig POV,
> > of course!).
> >
> >
> >
> > After a few experiments which details are not of interest here, I happened
> > to find out that my laptop running under Windows used the "default
> > allocation table" to format the SD cards. Probably my fault, I did not take
> > any interest in this detail before.
> >
> >
> >
> > As a cure, I have used the SDFormater tool found in the utilities offered
> > in Panasonic Japan site.
> >
> >
> >
> > Result: the Digilux has been able to take over 100 shots on a 4 gb,
> > powering off and on regularily during the sequence. No trouble, no art
> > either...
> >
> >
> >
> > For reference, I'll say that both SD, 2gb with FAT and the 4gb with FAT32
> > should have a 32K bytes in the unit allocation. This is true for the LX3
> > and the Digilux3 / Panasonic L1.By extension, I would not be surprised to
> > find this requirement for other models by Panasonic.
> >
> >
> >
> > On a 4gb, the default allocation unit of "Windoze" offerd 179 shots (with
> > buggy Digilux 3), the value is set back to 175 with the proper parameters.
> >
> >
> >
> > When the card is formatted on the camera, before the first picture, only
> > the directories DCIM and MISC are created. After the first picture is
> > taken, the directory LEICA or PANA appears under DCIM. The camera format
> > just write the FAT/FAT32 and does not perform a complete allocation.
> >
> >
> >
> > One thing funny: When a SD card is inserted in the Panasonic LX3, pictures
> > are taken and placed in directory DCIM\PANA. When the card is placed in the
> > Digilux3, the pictures can be viewed on the camera. When pictures are taken
> > with the Digilux 3 , they are stored in DCIM\LEICA. Then if the card is
> > returned back to the LX3, it can read the images from the Digilux. Both
> > directory co exists peacefully.
> >
> >
> >
> > So, the Digilux 3 is fine, no fault found (NFF), just an absentminded user,
> > me....
> >
> >
> >
> > Sorry for the long post, I thought it would be of use to some of you.
> >
> >
> >
> > Enjoy your sunday!
> >
> > ----------------------------
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