Hi, I've got an Olympus C2000Z which I'm really happy with and recently decided to splurge on a new 32Mb card for it. I bought an Olympus brand one with panorama function and started snapping away. I took about 30 SHQ pictures and then switched the camera off, removed the card and loaded it into my Swift CARDPort SM parallel card reader. I then copied the 30 images onto my PC's hard drive and erased them off the card. Trouble is, only 16 of the 30 images are viewable, the others come up with a jpeg header problem. Also, whenever I put the card back into the camera after using the Swift reader, I have to re-format it. Any ideas before I go back to the supplier/Olympus ?

Cheers, Rob.

-- Rob Kenney (rob.kenney@virgin.net), December 23, 1999

Answers

Hi Rob, sorry for the sloow response.

I would suspect the card reader before I'd worry about the SM card. It sounds like the reader is doing something to the card and/or files. If you can find someone (or a camera store) with a different reader set up, try reading/erasing a card on that, see if the results are different. If the cards are working OK in the camera (which it sounds like they are), look to the reader.

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), January 03, 2000.

I have the same problem with an 8 MB olympus module (with my C2500L) and a SM-CF Usb reader :(.

The only way to transfert pics is the serial wire.

-- Antoine (achauve@free.fr), May 01, 2001.

I have a similar problem with a 64 MB card, Teh Olympus camera can show all the picture but when I try to read the card on a smart media drive, it shows blank picutres when I try to view them. I cannot even copy the files to a hard disk. Windows Explorer comes up with an error. Scandisk says that it can fix the disk by truncating some files. Does anyone know whats wrong

-- (steven.khan@adilam.com.au), June 25, 2002.

I have made a format utility that repairs the cis and Panorama feature on olypmus smartmedia cards. But need to work with a card reader that uses smrep utility. I rewrote the hex values per this site http://www.geocities.com/roberthaus/pan/ This repaired all of my cards 128mb and 64mb non Olympus cards. And put the Panorama feature on them also.

-- Robert Ashmun (rjashmun@attbi.com), January 12, 2003.

There are more resources at my site for this subject. You will need a card reader/writer that uses the Smprep utility Then you may try one the files we have for Zio reader/writers and Microtech so far.

http://home.attbi.com/~slobo66/ or Try http://www.geocities.com/roberthaus/pan/index.html

-- Robert Ashmun (slobo66@attbi.com), February 17, 2003.