IBM Microdrive Error!!

[Steve P]

Can anyone help me.

I have Card Error! / Read Error appear after taking a shot today. Now when I try to access the shot the little hour glass just keeps turning in the preview screen. I save all but four shots by transfering to my PC. I have tried everything I can think of to correct this pain in the ass problem but nothing makes any difference.

I have a sneaky feeling I switched off before the image was fully written to the drive!!

Anyone know what I can do..


Steve :mad:

[Andre]

Originally posted by Steve P

I have a sneaky feeling I switched off before the image was fully written to the drive!!


Switching off early won't cause any issue - the camera will keep writing then shut off when it is good and ready.

The only way to interrupt the writing would be to pull the batteries or the card while being written to - unless the batteries died while it was writing.

[Steve P]

Thanks for your advise Andre,

The batteries are fine so this sounds serious to me. Guess I will have to contact Fuji to see what they say.


Steve

Sorry, I wasn't paying attention and put this in the wrong place!

[GaryB]

When this happend to me I sent the camera and MD back to Fuji UK and they told me that it was working to specification. I had Hitachi replace the drive, but the second one did the same.

Gary

[Steve P]

Well this is a strange one!

As I speak/ write I have just got the S2 to take a shot which it did with no problems. All I got yesterday was READ ERROR! I then went to the delete/ format mode and deleted the lot which seems to have worked. My card is now operating as normal.

Phew!! so far things look ok but I will keep an eye on it!!


Steve:D

[Igor]

Steve, I had a lot of errors with my old IBM MD, and finally replaced it with the Lexar CF card. Now I'm feeling fine! :)

[stevebri]

Steve, Igor

I have 3 Micro drives, one started making noises, especially in the card reader, so I kept an eye on it.

Then it would occasionally, write error on one shot.

Now it's a write off, I cannot, format it at all, and to be honest I don't trust it now.

It sounds like yours Steve is on it's way out. I would crank loads of RAw's and even a few full size Tiff's through it and see how it holds up...

Steve

[frankgh]

Originally posted by Andre
Switching off early won't cause any issue - the camera will keep writing then shut off when it is good and ready.

The only way to interrupt the writing would be to pull the batteries or the card while being written to - unless the batteries died while it was writing.

Opening the card door will do strange things too. My CF card was full so I kept shooting to my 128mb Smart Media when the camera let me take one more shot after that card was full. It tried and tried to wright but didn't have anywhere to wright too. I knew switching the camera off would (and did) have not effect but as soon as I opened the memory door, she shut down and all data on the smart media was gone.

[stevebri]

My Dodgy microdrive might be saved...

So it wouldn't format in the S2.

So I formatted in the PC, then it won't initialise in the S2, so I put it in my Canon G2, where it asked to format it, so I did, the took 1 shot, then took it out and put it in the S2...

BINGO...


Now I have set the S2 to LARGE tiffs and I am shooting 8 off at a time and letting the camera write these to the drive whilst I make a cup of tea...

This way I am putting the drive through it's paces... by writing Tiff's it is writing big files for a lengthy time.

I'll do that for a few days and let you know if it fails again...

Steve