CF Problem

[RwGast]

I have a parallel reader for cf/smart media, i used it to read my smart media for my camera for a year now and never had any problems. But i tried to put my new 256mb of flash into it and evertime i access it from anything my computer, explorer, etc, the computer just locks up. Then i was told i need to format the cf card so i went to right click and format and then it locked up before even opening the formatt window, what the hell is going on here?

[RwGast]

format box finally popped it ugly lil head up but it thinks its 1218.6mb and not 256mb. Is this common?

[Robby]

no that is not normal. you need to have it formatted to PPC, which i think your ppc will do automatically

[RwGast]

Hey thanks for the help, i figured out my problem though, a parallel flash reader takes forever to read a 256mb flash card on a p150. So i just stuck my pc card adapter in my mom 300mhz  laptop and it read the flash quick as all heck it took 5 seconds to format the crd.