Thread: SD Card won't work...
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Old 12-22-2007, 11:05 AM   #17
delphidb96
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Device: TWO Kindle 2s, one each Bookeen Cybook Gen3, Sony PRS-500, Axim X51V
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Originally Posted by Moonraker View Post
Hmmm, after adding and deleting some books the card is now NOT working.

I switched on my Gen3 and immediately noticed that many of the book thumbnail images were not paired up correctly to the relevant book. I re-connected the device to the PC and tried various things but in the end I couldn't even delete some stuff from the card. They would appear to be deleted only to re-appear when refreshed.
I then tried connecting the card to windows via the card reader only to find that Windows didn't recognise it. I couldn't eject it or format it either. It completely slowed my PC down to a crawl.
I ended up putting another smaller 512MB card into my card reader, adding some books and then inserting it into the Gen3. So far this is working correctly.
The card that arrived with my Gen3 is the Elite Pro 2GB and I now think it is faulty.
You know, I think I am now QUITE GLAD that they did not ship an SD card to me when they shipped me my 'engineering sample' unit. I had to go and scrounge my own... That, of course, led me to be as cheap as I could be and I went out and bought an older SanDisk 2GB SD card on eBay for about $7-including shipping-and I've not had a problem with it.

In fact, I can state that those 'no name' SD cards that kinda-sorta look like the SanDisk, but the labels don't actually HAVE 'SanDisk' printed on them (blue and red label with the text in white) work great in all of the 256MB to 4GB range. I know this because I'm looking at a stack of them sitting in my 'offline library' pile and they're all loaded with ebooks and have all been used in the past month.

Sometimes, cheaper IS better.

Derek
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