On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:54 AM, William "Chops" Westfield
<westfw@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:47 AM, Jinx wrote:
>
>> Perhaps this card is faulty or SD is somehow flakey in my
>> situation, because these seem unreasonable lengths to go to
>> to simply format it.
>
> I've never had problems with the 2G SD cards I have (I think I have
> four of them, mostly micro-SD.) =A02G is apparently the limit for "SD"
> low-level protocols; a 4G card requires SDHC electronics and
> firmware. =A0I had to replace card readers to read the 4G card(s) I
> bought, and it required careful attention to specs. =A0A lot of "many-
> in-1 SD card readers" don't do SDHC (at least, as of six months ago...)
>
> BillW

The firmware change is actually quite small (basically, divide the
address by 512), but I guess that's no help when the firmware is baked
into a card reader ASIC.

Regards,
Mark
markrages@gmail
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Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
markrages@midwesttelecine.com

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