GUID partition on compactflash problems

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    Has anyone partitioned a CF card with the GUID option using Apple's Disk Utility? I'm trying to do so right now, and in 10+ minutes the progress meter hasn't moved past 1/8". I tried the regular mac and MBR partition tables, and they both finished in less than a minute.

    In case it matters, it's a SanDisk 16G Extreme III CF card, and I'm using a Powerbook G4 running 10.4.11.
     
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    Trying it from Terminal leaves me hanging too ...

    diskutil partitionDisk /Volumes/16G 1 GPTFormat "Journaled HFS+" SanDiskCF 16G
    Started partitioning on disk disk1
    Creating Partition Map
    5% ..
     
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    All is well now. I was able to format it using my office MacBook Pro running 10.5.5
     
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