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geeko

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« on: January 19, 2008, 03:06:24 pm »
Hey guys, i just found a 8 (!) gb SD card for a decent price and i bought it.

Its called Memory Card Elite pro (lol...)
I will let you know if it works

In this thread u can also post ur experiences with SD card so others don't buy incompatible cards.
This is what i know so far:

DaneElec 1 gb microsd + adapter - WORKS
Kingston 2 gb microsd + adapter - WORKS
Transcend 4 gb SLOW speed - DOESNT WORK
Transcend 4 gb HIGH speed - WORKS
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« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2008, 04:48:07 pm »
I had corruption with two different transcend 4 giggers though, high speed. They got returned.
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« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2008, 10:39:06 am »
Don't buy this card.
Its not that it doesn't work with the zaurus.
As far as i can tell it doesn't work PERIOD.
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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2008, 07:40:28 pm »
Quote from: geeko
Don't buy this card.
Its not that it doesn't work with the zaurus.
As far as i can tell it doesn't work PERIOD.

I am not surprised SDHC card doesn't work with Cacko (if your sig is correct). try Angstrom, it should work, but that probably doesn't help you.

A non-HC sd card of 4Gb should work on cacko with the new kernel memory driver module from the 3200.

Or, use USB host and an external card reader.
« Last Edit: January 25, 2008, 07:40:43 pm by speculatrix »
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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2008, 12:18:04 am »
its not a SDHC card. Its a SD card. But it doesn't work.
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« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2008, 12:37:46 am »
If it's 8GB then it can't be an SD card, it has to be SDHC or fake.

SD can only physically support 4GB, and even that needs a non-standard driver. Which is why sharprom/cacko/pdaxrom etc only supported up to 1GB until the hacked drivers were released recently.
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« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2008, 11:53:20 am »
Yeap. 4gb is only supported in cacko via the tetsu kernel patch.
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« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2008, 02:54:57 pm »
i actualy got it working on my computer now via a card reader.

Seems it really is a SD card, very non standard however :/ So i gues i just bought a very expensive memory stick T_T

Unles somehow i can format it as a 4 gb card.. someone know software that can do this?
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2008, 05:09:22 pm »
Quote from: geeko
i actualy got it working on my computer now via a card reader.

Seems it really is a SD card, very non standard however :/ So i gues i just bought a very expensive memory stick T_T

Unles somehow i can format it as a 4 gb card.. someone know software that can do this?

can you repartition it into a 4GB chunk?

the problem is that some device drivers will barf on reading the number of sectors!
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« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2008, 12:22:38 pm »
When you insert it into the reader, then into the PC, it does come up as SD card, even though it's really SDHC. To prove this I just did this with a SDHC card in my Vista laptop.
Don't be fooled.
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« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2008, 03:10:18 am »
hm.. it seems like i have been ripped of then :/ at this point im glad it has 8 gb of anything
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« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2008, 03:27:09 am »
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hm.. it seems like i have been ripped of then :/ at this point im glad it has 8 gb of anything

sadly, you may still be wrong. plug it into your linux desktop and do the following

* unmount the flash card, something like
  umount /dev/sdd1
* determine how many blocks of storage the card says it has
   fdisk -l /dev/sdd
* create a file that many blocks of random data where NNNN is the block count
   dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/bigrandomfile bs=512 count=NNNN
* fill the card with that data
  cat /tmp/bigrandomfile > /dev/sdd
* then verify the card hasn't lost/corrupted the data using md5
  md5sum /tmp/bigrandomfile /dev/sdd

when you've finished, use "fdisk /dev/sdd" to put a new partition on the card, be sure to set the partition type to LBA FAT32, then "mkfs.vfat /dev/sdd1".

Hope this yields good news results!
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