Josh Harrison wrote:
Ok all, I bought and stuck a 4GB SD card into my N800 - and it works.
The N800 cannot handle formatting the 4GB SD, it formats as a 2GB card.
I stuck it into my reader on my computer and formatted it to it's full
potential, and reinserted the card back into the N800, and sure enough,
the memory manager shows 3.93GB free on my card.
Hope this can serve as useful information for those out there in the tubes.
Josh
I assume you formatted the card using the File Manager, in which case the N800
will format the card using FAT16 - 2GB is the maximum volume/partition
supported by the FAT16 filesystem. The N800 also understands FAT32 and this is
what your PC used to format the 4GB card so when you re-inserted it back into
the N800 the full card capacity could be accessed by the N800.
Basically, the N800 needs to use FAT32 when formatting > 2GB partitions, and FAT16
<= 2GB.
Until this issue is resolved you will have to continue formatting your card in
your PC to get the maximum capacity, or use mkdosfs in xterm.
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