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[Chomper]

Hi.

I hope that anyone could help me. I have just bought a Supercard sd. But it doesn't work with a 2gb sd card. It says "not find sd" My 64mb works fine. Does anyone know why? Could it be the make/model of the card?

[Slippy]

Remember to format it in FAT, NOT FAT32.  That's probably your problem.

[Chomper]

Thank you for your respond. I have tried both. First FAT32 then FAT afterwards

[corporation]

You've tried both and it still doesn't work?


i wanted to buy a 2gb sd for my sc but this makes me wary.


can anyone here attest to a 2gb sd FAT16 card working in the sc?

thanks!

[keen31]

"FAT16 was a very limited file system in the way that it would store data very in-efficiently, every file would take up a minimum of 32Kb in space as this was the minimum cluster size in a FAT16 system. Also it was only capable of using hard disks upto 2Gb in size."

"FAT16: This is the FAT version most often found in older systems, and for small partitions on modern systems. It uses a 16-bit binary number to hold cluster numbers. When you see the generic reference to FAT, it is usually referring to FAT 16. This is because it became the de facto standard for hard disks, even though FAT 32 now more popular. A volume using FAT 16 can hold a maximum of 65,526 clusters, which is 2^16 less a few FAT 16 reserves for itself. FAT16 is used for hard disk volumes ranging in size from 16 MB to 2,048 MB"



Something tells me that pushing the standard to its limits on something like a flash media, in an accessing device that may or may not be optimized for the full capabilities of the standard is probably going to cause problems.

[SpAwN]

can anyone here attest to a 2gb sd FAT16 card working in the sc?

I got a Transcend 2GB SD 150x speed and it worked perfectly just out the package. It holds now 53 DS roms (1.52 GB)
No problems till now...

I posted this in couple other forums and feel like i am promoting Transcend, but maybe there are other brands which work good.

[Dudu.exe]

te 2gb limitation of fat it not fo the partition.. is for the maximum file size!!

[zektor]

can anyone here attest to a 2gb sd FAT16 card working in the sc?

I got a Transcend 2GB SD 150x speed and it worked perfectly just out the package. It holds now 53 DS roms (1.52 GB)
No problems till now...

I posted this in couple other forums and feel like i am promoting Transcend, but maybe there are other brands which work good.

Transcend is a great brand. I have MMC cards made by them and they are just awesome.

That leads me to a question (not to get off the topic) but has anybody tried MMC cards in the SC SD? I'm afraid to try...don't want to ruin my card

[keen31]

te 2gb limitation of fat it not fo the partition.. is for the maximum file size!!

its for the maximum allocatable file volume, meaning the whole drive... although there are some implementations that can yeild up to 4gB of usability (possibly more, but with increasingly less efficiency). it could be anything that is causing the problems with that card, just offering up a suggestion for potential issues.

[ruffnutts]

Ive tried a MMC card and it dont work it was only a 128 though