 Nand Backup -can't Get Free Size, error message for Hitachi 4GB microdrive |
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 Jan 3 2006, 07:28 AM
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Just tried to do a NAND backup to my Hitachi 4 GB cf microdrive and an error message, "can't get free size" pops up. It's willing to backup up to my sd card, but I don't have enough space there - would 1 GB be enough?
Anyway I went to the extent of reformatting the card in Windows XP and checking for errors and nothing shows up. What does this error MEAN - any ideas? One person in 2003 posted about the error but no one posted a solution. I noticed that whenever I put a cf card in of ANY kind, the CF CD line changes to "low" from "high" if THAT means anything. Help! I want to backup my present configuration so that I can try out the Cacko ROM. Thanks in advance. 
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Jan 3 2006, 08:21 AM
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QUOTE(tombraider @ Jan 3 2006, 09:28 AM) Just tried to do a NAND backup to my Hitachi 4 GB cf microdrive and an error message, "can't get free size" pops up. It's willing to backup up to my sd card, but I don't have enough space there - would 1 GB be enough? I answered your first question about the Microdrive several days ago. http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16865&hl= You need a minimum of about ~140 megs free for a NAND backup. Realistically this means you need at least a 256 MB card. |
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Jan 3 2006, 08:30 AM
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I am not sure if I remember correctly but I think it worked for me if I partitioned my microdrive to have a max of 2Gb FAT16 first partition.
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Jan 3 2006, 10:24 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 409 Joined: 23-November 04 From: Murphy, North Carolina USA Member No.: 5,590 |
Sorry, I missed your reply!
 The backup turned out to be only 135 MB in size - probably because I have just about everything installed to the sd card (which I backup periodically by itself).I figured out that the backups only work to fat16, and fat16 can only be 2 GB or under in size as sheck.r says. I wound up using my sd card. I thought the file would be huge, and so I removed half the stuff on the card before I backed up but it turned out to be relatively small. Next time I'll use a 256 MB cf card formatted to fat16. Thanks for the help!  QUOTE(DrWowe @ Jan 3 2006, 04:21 PM) QUOTE(tombraider @ Jan 3 2006, 09:28 AM) Just tried to do a NAND backup to my Hitachi 4 GB cf microdrive and an error message, "can't get free size" pops up. It's willing to backup up to my sd card, but I don't have enough space there - would 1 GB be enough? I answered your first question about the Microdrive several days ago. http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16865&hl= You need a minimum of about ~140 megs free for a NAND backup. Realistically this means you need at least a 256 MB card.  |
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Jan 3 2006, 12:00 PM
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QUOTE(tombraider @ Jan 3 2006, 05:28 PM) Just tried to do a NAND backup to my Hitachi 4 GB cf microdrive and an error message, "can't get free size" pops up. It's willing to backup up to my sd card, but I don't have enough space there - would 1 GB be enough? Anyway I went to the extent of reformatting the card in Windows XP and checking for errors and nothing shows up. What does this error MEAN - any ideas? One person in 2003 posted about the error but no one posted a solution. I noticed that whenever I put a cf card in of ANY kind, the CF CD line changes to "low" from "high" if THAT means anything. Help! I want to backup my present configuration so that I can try out the Cacko ROM. Thanks in advance. Greetings! I had a similar problem just yesterday, just the difference I was doing NAND restore. Basically this "can't get free size" means = "I can't read (nor write) the card you're giving me!". I couldn't get my 512Mb CF card to react so I used a 256Mb SD card. I would think the Zaurus BIOS (or whatever you call this low-level IO-system interface) is quite primitive and a 4 Gb card sounds like you'd be talking french to an elephant. I'd try with a smaller card, if you have any (Secure digital included). My problem with NAND required me also to format the SD card into FAT (this meaning FAT16 I assume?). Again, you have to play primitive enough. (edit: Ok, nice job for me  - I just noticed you already overcame with the problem. Well - maybe I'll leave this post in case somebody else would need this information.)-Mersault- |
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Feb 9 2007, 11:57 AM
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I just got this error in the backup/restore menu. I'm making a NAND backup.
"can't get free size" Then I checked my CF card in Windows and it was formatted as FAT32. I have another CF card formatted as FAT (or FAT16) and this one worked fine. I'm going to reformat that other CF card to FAT also. Oh, I remember why I formatted it as FAT32. It was because I was trying to copy 23,000 files (in one directory) to it. |
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