transfer files w/ CF Card??

[csonni]

Yep, I'm in OSX.  I just used Disk Utility to format the card in Mac OS Extended, but in the process, Disk Utility quit and left the card unmounted.  Info told me it was DOS_Fat_12.  Started up Disk Utility and tried again.  Disk Utility didn't quit, but it again left the card unmounted in the same format.  What goes?

[csonni]

Oops.  I guess I had my first crash since loading OSX.  I put the CF card back in and everything locked up.  I removed the card and that's when I had a pretty gray veil come over my screen telling me that I needed to Restart my computer, along with some gobbly-gook text at the bottom (was that a kernal panic??).  I held down the power button for a bit and the Pismo shut down.  Restarted fine, but now I hesitate to pop the card back in.

[Paddy]

Yup, sounds like a kernel panic. Hmmm...maybe it's trying to tell you something. Maybe that ethernet crossover cable IS the way to go?

[tacit]

Disk Utility wasn't really designed for Compact Flash cards. Have you tried reformatting it with the Finder's "Erase Disk" command?

[csonni]

I ended up sticking the card into my FW Reader on my Desktop and I was given the option to initialize it.  I guess that worked, but I will still have to reformat it when it gets full.  Tacit, where exactly to you find "Erase Disk" in the Finder?  Forgive me for my ignorance.

[tacit]

In OS Classic, it's under the "Special" menu. In OS X, I believe you find it by Control-clicking on the disk icon

[Paddy]

Er...tacit...unless you have an entirely different version of OS X than the rest of us,    you MUST use Disk Utility to erase a disk. It's not a Finder function in X. That's why you can't find it csonni. (had me wondering if I'd missed something there too!)