It's also worth noting that the 32GB limit is also artificial. 2048GB is the technical limit for SDHC, if I recall correctly.
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Stefan Misch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Crane, Matthew wrote: >> >> The SD card association has limtied the size of sdhc to 32gb, the max >> size of a fat32 system. > > I just want to give a short note that this is not true. Fat32 supports > partition size of up to 2TiB. Microsoft artificially limited Windows 2000 > and following to be able to create Fat32 partitions of max 32GiB. Using > other tools to create them (such as "mkfs.vfat") it's still possible to > create those partitions. And Windows reads and writes to them. > > Of course now that there's a reasonable stable NTFS access from Linux it > doesn't matter that much anymore but a few years back this was quite a pain > in the ass. > > just my 0.02€ > Stefan > > >> No doubt there's a lot of crappy SD cards out there that don't comply >> well to standard interfaces though, but unless you're really really >> skimping there's likely nothing to worry about with any common microsd >> cards. >> You could even support larger cards because we aren't limited to fat32 >> on a linux phone. >> But has anybody found an SD card that doesn't work with existing >> hardware?? I only wish I had hardware so I can't test the few cards I >> have.. Matt >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Tabbal >> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 9:52 AM >> To: List for Openmoko community discussion >> Subject: Re: microSD support >> >> >> I think he's asking if the phone will support SDHC, which is required >> for larger cards and many older devices do not support. Or perhaps if >> 8GB in particular has been tested. It would be nice to know exactly what >> is supported, as those 8GB cards are getting cheap lately. We might have >> to wait for the first phones to ship to know for sure what will or will >> not work. Right now, only the OM dev team at FIC could test it for sure, >> and they are kind of busy getting mass production going. I think I'd >> rather have them do that and test the microSD size limits later. >> >> >> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Crane, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >From wikipedia entry on current sd cards: >> >> Memory capacity = (C_SIZE+1) * 512 K = (222-1+1) * 512 K = >> (4194304-1+1) >> * 512K = 2147483648 K = 2048 GB >> >> So you're probally good. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Giorgio M. >> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 6:53 AM >> To: List for Openmoko community discussion >> Subject: microSD support >> >> >> I know that freerunner will support MicroSD memory. >> >> I want know wich capacity it will support?can i use 8GB >> microSD?? >> >> what is the limit? >> >> thanks >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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