Format FAT-16 SD Card on Mac OS
I just got a SONY ebook reader. It support upmost 8G memory stick card and 2G SD card. Apparently, the ebook reader system (linux distribution) can only support FAT-16 file system for SD card. Mac OS is good that it doesn’t need any driver to install, but disk utility GUI can only format FAT-32 for the card. So, I google it and got the solution:
heng-dus-macbook-pro:~ hda2$ sudo diskutil partitionDisk /Volumes/HENRY_SD 1 MBRFormat “MS-DOS FAT16″ “HENRY_SD” 1000M
Password:
Started partitioning on disk disk1
Creating partition map
Formatting disk1s1 as MS-DOS (FAT16) with name HENRY_SD
[ + 0%..10%..20%..30%..40%..50%..60%..70%..80%..90%..100% ]
Finished partitioning on disk disk1
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *1.9 Gi disk1
1: DOS_FAT_16 HENRY_SD 1.9 Gi disk1s1
