Daughter put my smartmedia card in her RIO and it does not work on my camera just wondering how can I fix he problem. Thank You Rick

-- Rick Salazar (Rick_Salazar@onebox.com), May 05, 2000

Answers

Rick:

If you can reformat your smartmedia card in camera, you are home free. Your user manual should give specific instructions. It is possible that irreversible damage was done to the card. If so, it will have to be replaced. I don't think the maker of the card would consider inserting the card in another device as being something they would cover.

-- Lee Custer (phoebe@laguna.com.mx), May 05, 2000.

I read a while back that once the SmartMedia card has been formatted by Rio, there's no getting it back (for digital camera). In fact, the reason I remember this is because I purchased a 32 MB Smartmedia card from Rio a year ago or so and a lot of people were posting that IF you make the mistake of putting it into a RIO player, you wouldn't be able to use it in your camera.

Good luck. Hopefully my memory is wrong.

-- F Bacon (fbacon@troweprice.com), May 12, 2000.

I'm not sure about this, but recall seeing something a year or so ago when the RIO's came out about a program called "Dreaming of Brazil" that was supposed to be able to "fix" a smartmedia that had been formatted by a Rio. Try using the search function in this forum or a websearch and see what you come up with there are a couple posts that mention this if you search for "brazil" in this forum. A web search for RIO and "dreaming of brazil" would probably find it. Good Luck! If it works for you, why not post back to the forum and let others know what you found and where and how it worked?

-- Gerald M. Payne (gmp@francomm.com), May 12, 2000.

Try: http://www.parkverbot.org/harald/download/

I did a little more digging, that's the link for the Dreaming of Brazil program's author. He has a current version and a new BETA version available that you can download from that page. READ the instructions! Good Luck!

-- Gerald M. Payne (gmp@francomm.com), May 12, 2000.

CAN ANYONE HELP ME FIGURE OUT HOW TO REFORMAT MY SMARTMEDIA MEMORY TO WORK FOR MY DIAMOND RIO MP3 PLAYER. I READ THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL AND IT DID NOT INCLUDE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THAT.

-- Tyler Raugh (Ty_raugh@hotmail.com), August 19, 2001.

Dreaming of Brazil http://www.parkverbot.org/harald/download/

You can also use RioDiag available from Diamond

-- Chris Hanson (me@here.com), August 15, 2002.