Although the point is moot if there aren't any manufacturers exploiting that.
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:44 -0400, Kevin Dean wrote: > 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 > >> community@lists.openmoko.org > >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Openmoko community mailing list > >> community@lists.openmoko.org > >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Openmoko community mailing list > >> community@lists.openmoko.org > >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > community@lists.openmoko.org > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community