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Originally Posted by AlexBell
Thanks, Dennis.
I'll keep your suggestion in mind for the future. Does it make any difference that the card is formatted FAT32? As supplied it was formatted FAT, and caused a lot of problems which were resolved when I formatted it to FAT32.
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FAT32 is a modification of FAT to handle larger volumes. It uses a 32 bit address rather than 16, so a far greater number of clusters are supported. (The old limit of 2GB as the maximum size for a volume was a FAT16 limitation. When drives got larger, FAT needed to be changed to support them.) But the same problems can occur, and the same fix is useful.
What's weird to me is that the Cybook should want FAT32. On the one hand, it means it should be able to handle SD cards larger than 2GB. On the other, it
should read FAT16 cards without issues.
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Anyway, for reasons entirely unknown to me the card has come back to life. The library shows the ebooks on the Cybook itself and the ebooks on the card, and some mp3s I put on the card while I was trying to work out what was happening.
I have no idea what caused it to stop reading, and no idea what caused it to come back to life. Nor indeed do I know how to prevent the problem happening again.
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That sounds like an intermittant hardware problem in the card slot.
Out of curiousity, what brand of card is it?
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Dennis