2gb And Up Sd Cards Supported, driver available for cxxxx Options

[Cresho]

YEP!

I went to fry's and purchased a few 1gb and a mini 2gb and also a 2gb patriot. The only one i tried was the 2gb patriot just out of curiosity and worked. This means that there is no or some limitation to the sd cards for the zaurus. So I got greedy and wanted 18gb on my zaurus so i purchased...well i tried to purchase a 8gb compact flash(none available)4gb sd card(none available). The only thing that came out of this was a 2gb patriot sd card on my spanking new c3200. Say.....does anybody want to try my new ipk.....2gb driver or more for your zauruses?Here it is! It was tested by a few and they stated it works fantastic.

Use at your own risk and don't come crying to me if it breaks your z.
the c3200 does not need it because it already has updated drivers.
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View this site for sd card compatability
http://www.tyrannozaurus.com/?q=wiki/SDCompatList
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models supported
c-1000
c-3000
c-3100
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Rom supported
sharprom
cacko 1.23

There are two sd drivers now. The first one which I slaped together only replaces a link to where the original driver stays. The tetsu driver improves upon the older driver by adding a script. tetsu added postinst and postrm scripts to the new version. Uninstalling my old ipk would most likely make your zaurus sd drive not operational unless you do a hard reset or most likely a nand restore. NOthing wrong with my driver. The tetsu one is more correct. Download the tetsu sd driver. I took the old sd down just. The original driver had 577 downloads.

2 downloads.

http://webpages.charter.net/cresho/2gb-sd-driver.zip
http://webpages.charter.net/cresho/cd-refresh.zip

This post has been edited by Cresho: Jun 25 2007, 09:31 PM

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[Cresho]

woops. i screwed up on the first ipk. made a new one and someone is testing it.

update...i added the new ipk. Some problems i came accross was going between modules.rom and modules. reason being is that modules.rom has the original driver while the modules carries a symlink-looks like one. so what the installer does is overwrites the symlink. the original driver stays as is in the modules.rom directory. Not sure if the file system is the same on all handhelds. But that was really my dilema.

papadon tested a few ipk's and now his sandisk 2gb works fine. he used the ipk installer.

So there you have it folks. ipk is at the start of this thread.

[Meanie]

woops.  i screwed up on the first ipk.  made a new one and someone is testing it.

update...i added the new ipk.  Some problems i came accross was going between modules.rom and modules.  reason being is that modules.rom has the original driver while the modules carries a symlink-looks like one.  so what the installer does is overwrites the symlink.  the original driver stays as is in the modules.rom directory.  Not sure if the file system is the same on all handhelds.  But that was really my dilema.

papadon tested a few ipk's and now his sandisk 2gb works fine.  he used the ipk installer.

So there you have it folks.  ipk is at the start of this thread.

Cresho and anyone else interested in this,

All the C3x00/C1000 Zauri use 2.4.20 linux kernel (unless you install OZ which use 2.6.15 or BSD)
They are all the same, except some have extra updated patches (ie tetsu special kernel)
The kernel sources are available from Sharp, except for the sd module which is binary only so nobody can update the driver except Sharp.
Sashz has compiled an opensource replacement for pdaXrom which, because it is opensource. we have the source code for it. And because pdaXrom is also using 2.4.20 kernel, the modules can be compiled for Sharp ROM or even copied over.
Now with the 3200 sd module, you can remove the symlink from /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/block/sharp_mmcsd_m.o and replace it with the new module, or you can replace the one under /lib/modules.rom/2.4.20/kernel/block/sharp_mmcsd_m.o directly, you you will need to remount / as rw before you can do that. On a C3000, that would be preferrable, because of the limited size of the NAND, but it is also dangerous because, if the NAND gets full during the replacement, you will not be able to update nor delete files from the NAND anymore unless you reflash the kernel. Same is with /home which is an another NAND partition, but it is not as crammed full as the / partition on the other NAND partition.
Also, it would be a good idea to unmount /mnt/card first and then shut down the SD manager by running /etc/rc.d/init.d/sd stop. Once you replace the module, you can start the SD manager again /etc/rc.d/init.d/sd start and you should be able to mount your SD card again without requiring a reboot.