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Lady Fitzgerald · 08-02-2010, 08:53 PM

Curiosity finally got the better of me so I pulled the card from my JBL and reformatted it to FAT32. I put it back in the JBL, hooked up the USB, and fired it up. When I tried to put a couple of test books on the card using calibre, the JBL shut down early (when I did it before, I had no problems). I tried again and got the same results. I pulled the card and re-reformatted it to FAT16. Got the same results. I pulled the card and still got the same results. I pulled the batteries to make sure they were good. All were well over 1.4v. I popped the batteries back in, pulled the card, and fired up the JBL. It shut itself down after a couple of minutes. Even though it was set to autoclose at 15 minutes, I reset to 30 minutes. Still would shutdown after a couple of minutes. I had to leave so I left the thing on the bed.

After I got back home, I was in a proper snit becausr my OTHER e-book reader (Astak Mentor) also decided to act wonky and stall in startup mode. (mutter, mutter, mumble, mumble). I put it on the charger even though the battery indicator said it had a full charge (it happened once before and putting on the charger fixed it; I think the indicator lies) then turned my attention to the JBL. I considered several courses of action and rejected them due to their terminal nature. Then, I fired it up and hit the little reset button. When I tried to fire it up again, I was afraid I had broken it because nothing happened at first. Eventually (shortly before I tried to skip it off the floor on the way to the trash) it decided to do something. It took quite a while but it eventually "recovered" (I think the immiment threat of being bounced off the floor scared it into behaving). After starting and shutting down the JBL a few times and letting it run awhile to make sure it would behave, I reformatted the card to FAT32. I put it back in the JBL, fired it up, hooked it to the computer, fired up calibre and successfully loaded a couple of test books onto the card.

Why it wouldn't work the first time I tried it on FAT32 but did when I reformatted to FAT16 is a mystery to me. Same for all the problems I ran into when I tried to re-reformat it to FAT32. All I know is it's working fine on FAT 32 now. Yeesh!

08-02-2010, 08:53 PM	#12
Lady Fitzgerald Wizard Posts: 2,013 Karma: 251649 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Tempe, AZ, USA, Earth Device: JetBook Lite (away from home) + 1 spare, 32" TV (at home)	Curiosity finally got the better of me so I pulled the card from my JBL and reformatted it to FAT32. I put it back in the JBL, hooked up the USB, and fired it up. When I tried to put a couple of test books on the card using calibre, the JBL shut down early (when I did it before, I had no problems). I tried again and got the same results. I pulled the card and re-reformatted it to FAT16. Got the same results. I pulled the card and still got the same results. I pulled the batteries to make sure they were good. All were well over 1.4v. I popped the batteries back in, pulled the card, and fired up the JBL. It shut itself down after a couple of minutes. Even though it was set to autoclose at 15 minutes, I reset to 30 minutes. Still would shutdown after a couple of minutes. I had to leave so I left the thing on the bed. After I got back home, I was in a proper snit becausr my OTHER e-book reader (Astak Mentor) also decided to act wonky and stall in startup mode. (mutter, mutter, mumble, mumble). I put it on the charger even though the battery indicator said it had a full charge (it happened once before and putting on the charger fixed it; I think the indicator lies) then turned my attention to the JBL. I considered several courses of action and rejected them due to their terminal nature. Then, I fired it up and hit the little reset button. When I tried to fire it up again, I was afraid I had broken it because nothing happened at first. Eventually (shortly before I tried to skip it off the floor on the way to the trash) it decided to do something. It took quite a while but it eventually "recovered" (I think the immiment threat of being bounced off the floor scared it into behaving). After starting and shutting down the JBL a few times and letting it run awhile to make sure it would behave, I reformatted the card to FAT32. I put it back in the JBL, fired it up, hooked it to the computer, fired up calibre and successfully loaded a couple of test books onto the card. Why it wouldn't work the first time I tried it on FAT32 but did when I reformatted to FAT16 is a mystery to me. Same for all the problems I ran into when I tried to re-reformat it to FAT32. All I know is it's working fine on FAT 32 now. Yeesh!