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Ron46 · 08-05-2010, 12:58 AM

I have mine set up exactly like Ken. Two empty folders on the reader and the entire library on the SD card. Works great.

But I don't agree about never tampering with the 100MB reader memory. A few times when the reader was acting up, like keeping books in recently read that I have removed, I have run chkdsk and had lost allocations corrected. I have also reformatted that volume, and the firmware creates the two empty folders that the reader needs- Books and Pictures. Chkdsk (in Windows) and FSCK (in Linux) are two powerful utilities that seem to straighten out problems on a number of devices.

But my question is whether the 100MB reader memory was originally FAT16 or FAT32. I don't remember now. It would seem to me that if we are using FAT32 on the SD card, the reader should be using the same. But maybe it should be FAT 16 since that is what we use for firmware updates.

Could someone who has never reformatted their reader memory hook up their cable and right click on the reader's 100MB memory in MyComputer and select Properties, then tell me if it is FAT16 or FAT32?

08-05-2010, 12:58 AM	#20
Ron46 Zealot Posts: 103 Karma: 110 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Massachusetts Device: JetbookLite, EB-1150, PalmIIIXE	I have mine set up exactly like Ken. Two empty folders on the reader and the entire library on the SD card. Works great. But I don't agree about never tampering with the 100MB reader memory. A few times when the reader was acting up, like keeping books in recently read that I have removed, I have run chkdsk and had lost allocations corrected. I have also reformatted that volume, and the firmware creates the two empty folders that the reader needs- Books and Pictures. Chkdsk (in Windows) and FSCK (in Linux) are two powerful utilities that seem to straighten out problems on a number of devices. But my question is whether the 100MB reader memory was originally FAT16 or FAT32. I don't remember now. It would seem to me that if we are using FAT32 on the SD card, the reader should be using the same. But maybe it should be FAT 16 since that is what we use for firmware updates. Could someone who has never reformatted their reader memory hook up their cable and right click on the reader's 100MB memory in MyComputer and select Properties, then tell me if it is FAT16 or FAT32? Last edited by Ron46; 08-05-2010 at 01:01 AM.