Regarding my statement that the DR uses only FAT 16
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Originally Posted by Shaggy
That is false. All of the iRex devices work with FAT32, which seems to be standard with most other readers as well.
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Again, Shaggy is correct. Last Saturday morning I checked my SD cards and found that only the 1 GB cards from iRex were FAT 16; my other (larger) cards
were FAT 32. Using the DR, I formatted an original (iRex labeled) card and a 16 GB card—both cards formatted to 1 GB, FAT 16.
It occurred to me that pakiyabhai's problem arose
after he had formatted his card, and I wondered if that may have been an issue (I also wondered if he had tried another card in the DR). I reformatted both cards on my Mac, the iRex card to 1 GB Fat 16, the other to 16 GB FAT 32. Both cards worked fine in the DR. I then reformatted the 16 GB card, this time formatting the
logical drive instead of the card itself; the card would not mount on the Mac. I inserted the card into my DR, several times, with no response from the DR. After several attempts, I got the card to mount on the Mac, and was able to reformat the card itself (the physical drive), after which it worked fine again.
So: the DR will only
format FAT 16 (with a 1 GB limit) but will
read FAT 16 and 32.
pakiyabhai, have you tried another (pre-formatted) card? Is it possible that you formatted the logical drive, and not the physical drive? I'm sorry that I didn't get back sooner on this, but I have been quite busy.
Kent Walters