Quote:
Originally Posted by T_Frain_K
Yes, me. And I expect most others as well.
Itīs a microSD-card with 2 GB (note: no SD-HC).
|
THE INFORMATION IN THIS POST IS WRONG (kept for history).
That pissed me off, why should I be the only one without a working SD card.
So I decided to investigate. And the problem goes a little something like this.
Well I got my SD card from Bookeen (in the deluxe package) AND IT DIDN'T WORK OUT OF THE BOX. So I reformatted it as FAT, still no go. And eventually just pulled the sucker out and forgot about it (hey 512 Mb is a lot of books, and with no folderview you are not filling it up any time soon).
So what's the problem? Well the problem is that if you just format the card as FAT, you probably get FAT32. And that wont work. You NEED to make sure its FAT16.
Being on Linux it never actually dawned on me that a device made in this millenium would REQUIRE FAT16, go figure. (The user "guide" (pfth) has nothing on this).
So... the solution goes a little something like this.
mkdosfs /dev/sde -F 16 -I
mkdosfs = "Make totally useless filesystem"
/dev/sde = The SD card (change this to whatever the SD card is on your machine).
-F 16 = Make the filesystem even more useless (thats the key).
-I = "I know, just do it" (without this, Linux will try to stop you from making what it thinks is a very bad idea).
And thats it, the SD card works like a charm.
This is a rather important destinction, especially when the device just destroys a FAT32 filesystem.