SD Supercard 2GB or 4GB max??

J-Dub · December 26, 2005, 02:14:58 PM

I have heard the SD version of the Super Card possibly supports SD cards larger than 2GB? Is this true? The official Super Card manual says, "The Supercard support Type I/II CF cards and all SD cards up to 1Gbyte"

That is definitely wrong so I'm hoping someone here has a hands-on answer to this. If the file system has to be FAT16, then 2GB is the limit. Has anyone used a card larger than 2GB on their SD Super Card without problems?

Thanks.

Dudu.exe · December 26, 2005, 02:18:04 PM

there are thousands of topics about this!

ratx · December 26, 2005, 02:50:08 PM

2G is the limit of a FAT16 using the standard cluster size, using 64k you can get upto 4g. As far as I know both 4g SD and CF both work with SC.

mikesinclair · December 26, 2005, 04:05:26 PM

Quote from: "J-Dub"I have heard the SD version of the Super Card possibly supports SD cards larger than 2GB? Is this true? The official Super Card manual says, "The Supercard support Type I/II CF cards and all SD cards up to 1Gbyte"

That is definitely wrong so I'm hoping someone here has a hands-on answer to this. If the file system has to be FAT16, then 2GB is the limit. Has anyone used a card larger than 2GB on their SD Super Card without problems?

Thanks.

I bought a 4G SD card and it did not work. When I turned on my nds a message appeared on the screen that said not in FAT format. SC does not work with FAT32

J-Dub · December 26, 2005, 04:38:44 PM

Quote from: "ratx"2G is the limit of a FAT16 using the standard cluster size, using 64k you can get upto 4g. As far as I know both 4g SD and CF both work with SC.

Thanks Ratx... I wasn't familiar with any format options for FAT16. When I put in a 256 CF card to format in XP.. it doesn't give me any options beyond "default allocation size" Have you personally done this alternate method of formatting yourself? Thanks!

ratx · December 27, 2005, 12:48:57 AM

You can specify the cluster size if you use the command line "format" command in XP/2000 etc or the windows port of mkdosfs.

J-Dub · December 27, 2005, 04:47:22 PM

Quote from: "ratx"You can specify the cluster size if you use the command line "format" command in XP/2000 etc or the windows port of mkdosfs.

From the net:
FAT16 volumes larger than 2 GB are not accessible from computers running MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, and many other operating systems. This limitation occurs because these operating systems do not support cluster sizes larger than 32 KB, which results in the 2 GB limit.

Can anyone personally confirm they have formatted a 4GB card using FAT16 and successfuly played it inside their Super Card?

And even if it does work in the Super Card.. if Windows can't read it - won't I have a hell of a time putting games onto it?

sneef · December 27, 2005, 05:41:23 PM

are you using win9x? (or ME of course)

that's the only reason you would have a problem getting windows to read it...

as long as you are using win2k or xp (any ntfs) i dont think you should have a problem accessing the card formatted to fat16 with 64k clusters.

mikesinclair · December 30, 2005, 03:49:34 PM

Quote from: "sneef"are you using win9x? (or ME of course)

that's the only reason you would have a problem getting windows to read it...

as long as you are using win2k or xp (any ntfs) i dont think you should have a problem accessing the card formatted to fat16 with 64k clusters.

I have Win Xp, and . "4G sd 64 clusters" did not work for me