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Accessories / Prefered SD card

« on: June 18, 2004, 08:33:27 am »

The sandisk reports are HORRIBLE, no wonder they are always on sale.

One thing to note with those Sandisk cards is that I think that list is dated, and the latest ones seem to work better.  It may be telling though, that many of those that complained about Sandisk cards were using cards around the time of those reviews!

I just got some SanDisk 256MB cards and formatted them for the ext2 filesystem (fdisk type \"83\" Linux, mkfs /dev/mmcda1) for my two SL6000s as per the instructions on http://docs.zaurus.com/. Everything looked good, but after a while, I started getting flaky messages when I did \"ls\" on /mnt/card. This happened after I started filling up the filesystem, so I\'m guessing the formatting screwed up and made some necessary metadata a writable part of the filesystem, and as I filled it up I started clobbering the metadata. Now nothing seems to work. I tried using my digital camera to reformat to FAT16 format, but it now thinks my 256MB card has 3.6MB.

Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.

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6000 - Tosa / USB HD attached to Z!

« on: June 18, 2004, 08:20:13 am »

Just another data point, but I have used SanDisk SD cards (both of Chinese manufacture) of 256 and 512 sizes, in both vfat and ext2 formats, in two different Zaurii without difficulty.

I just got some SanDisk 256MB cards and formatted them for the ext2 filesystem (fdisk type \"83\" Linux, mkfs /dev/mmcda1) for my two SL6000s as per the instructions on http://docs.zaurus.com/.  Everything looked good, but after a while, I started getting flaky messages when I did \"ls\" on /mnt/card.  This happened after I started filling up the filesystem, so I\'m guessing the formatting screwed up and made some necessary metadata a writable part of the filesystem, and as I filled it up I started clobbering the metadata.  Now nothing seems to work.  I tried using my digital camera to reformat to FAT16 format, but it now thinks my 256MB card has 3.6MB.

Any pointers would be appreciated.  Thanks.