HP 50g & SD Cards: Performance, Format, Notes
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07-16-2016, 02:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-16-2016 02:39 PM by Sylvain Cote.)
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RE: HP 50g & SD Cards: Performance, Format, Notes
For the Mac OS/X or should I say the macOS users ...
How to format a SD card in FAT16 from the command line using the diskutil command. At the command line given by the Terminal application To list the available supported partition types, type: diskutil listFilesystems [enter] Code: To list the available disks, type: diskutil list [enter] Code: /dev/disk0 (internal, physical): Identify the SD card Code: a) diskutil list [enter] (without the SD inserted) -> take note of the disks available and their numbers WARNING: be sure to identify the correct disk for the SD card else you could erase your internal hard disk. The diskutil partitionDisk command: Code: diskutil partitionDisk MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode [numberOfPartitions] [APM[Format]|MBR[Format]|GPT[Format]] [part1Format part1Name part1Size part2Format part2Name part2Size part3Format part3Name part3Size ...] Formatting example using a 500MB SD card mounted at /dev/disk3 Example: diskutil partitiondisk /dev/disk3 1 MBRFormat "MS-DOS FAT16" "HP50G01" 507M [ENTER] Code: Started partitioning on disk3 You have now a SD card FAT16 formatted ready to be used Sylvain edit: typo |
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