well, I found a Terminal command that lets me format my CF cards to FAT16, even on my latest mac — I formatted my OEM card and it works fine again
the question is: how come that card changed format alone? Wednesday night I played wuth it, ok, saturday evening I plugged the 2880 and it did not work anymore… and yesterday I formatted it to Fat 16, and now it works again: ???

In case any mac user has the same problem, here’s the terminal command I found:

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format partition as fat16 on mac osx 26/05/2007

just in case i forget, in order to partition a disk with a FAT16 partition:

diskutil partitionDisk /Volumes/NDS 1 MBRFormat “MS-DOS FAT16” “NDS” 1000M

that is:

* /Volumes/NDS: the mount point to partition, could also be /dev/disk1
* 1: the number of partitions
* MBRFormat: the partition format, MBR is the usual default for removable storage
* “MS-DOS FAT16”: partition type
* “NDS”: partition name
* 1000M: 1000 megabytes (size of the partition, if it is the last, it will span to the end of the drive)
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I worked for me on a macbook on OS 10_5_4

all the best

JL

well thanks a lot for your kind answer that gave me hope again
I’ll wait until tomorrow, and I’ll buy any CF card, so I’ll see if the FAT16 or FAT32 format is a pb…
have a nice sunday – even if every shop is closed, i’s a nice time for playing with all our EHX toys

all the best

jl