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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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SDHC vs SDXC are hardware specifications for the slot the card plugs into. See https://www.sdcard.org/developers/ov...ity/index.html
SDHC slots have a 32GB volume size limitation. If you have larger volumes, you need SDXC or SDUC to successfully mount and read them. The file system on the card is irrelevant. The volume size limit will apply regardless.
(As mentioned in my post, despite the fact that the manufacturer's on device manual stated a 32GB volume size limit, the device saw and used my 64GB card with no issues. There was apparently an engineering change for the slot hardware that never got communicated to the writers of the manual.)
And cards that large tend to come as exFAT, so redoing as FAT32 would have questionable benefit.
What tends to happen in newer Android tablets (running 6.0 Marshmallow or above) is that the device will offer to "adopt" the card. If you do that, the card is reformatted with the Linux ext4 filesystem Android uses. The drawback is that you can't then pop the card from the device, put it in an adapter, and access it from Windows, because Windows doesn't grok ext4 by default. (There is an open source third party driver that lets Windows access ext* file systems, but the vast majority of users won't be aware of it.)
I use the card strictly for storing data, so leaving it exFAT was fine.
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Dennis
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Dennis, all I know is I have gadgets both music players and video players, that can't read exFat chips, but if I reformat the chips into Fat32 they will work fine. I have done that for chips up to 512GB. (Sansa Clip, KDLinks HD-700, for example)
Now if it is implemented in hardware, (mostly high end Japanese gadgets), then, yes you're SOL.
I have found the most gadgets implement SDHC reading in software, so they can use "off the shelf" card readers (to save money). Those don't care what Fat is being pitched at them 16, 18, or 32. . .
Worth a refomat on a sample card to see. If it doesn't work, you can format back real easy.