>>> 32gb, the max size of a fat32 system
I think the 32 in "fat32" refers to bits not gb, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat32
I'm currently using an 80Gb FAT32 drive at this very moment.
Part of the confusion might be that Windows won't allow you to easily
format a "large" drive in FAT32 but instead forces you to NTFS.
regards
Crane, Matthew wrote:
I think it can be a more general
then that. The cards that are supported would be any standards
compliant card, and the adress space would be limited by what the
kernel supports.
The SD card association has
limtied the size of sdhc to 32gb, the max size of a fat32 system. The
kernel can support disks this large as can the mmc card driver.
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
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.
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