Possibly all I need to do is wait much longer until the card is read? I will try this.
I tried to partition only 8MB of the card before, leaving the rest unformatted, but it didn't work any better.
For the moment my next problem is connectivity. OS X->Win 98
(previously XP
)->USBtoRS232->WinCE ...quite a task
...21.02: did it...yippee!
Edited by headsign 2009-10-15 3:03 PM