Formatting a CF card with FAT95

[motorollin]

mfilos wrote:
AFAIK Fat is limited to 2GB max per partition. That's why the small CF works just fine and the slightly over 2GB partition isn't working

I have checked the Fat95 documentation and as far as I can tell it does support FAT32. The 4GB card did not work even when formatted as FAT32.

The problem with the partition which is just over 2GB is not related to the FAT95 problem as that partition was used on the internal IDE interface and formatted as FFS. Hopefully Thomas is correct and this can be easily fixed by changing the MaxTransfer value.

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moto

[alexh]

Could it be the FIXED / REMOVABLE attribute that CF cards can have?

Ones which appear as REMOVABLE are not well supported. SanDisk cards can be changed between FIXED and REMOVABLE in software.

I had lots of problems with data corruption on my CF cards. I had put it down to fake CF cards but I'll have to see if this MAX TRANSFER thing will fix it.

[motorollin]

I have heard about the fixed/removable attributes of CF cards before and was a bit worried that this was the case here, since changing the MaxTransfer rate didn't solver the problem. However, I swapped the card for a Transcend 4GB card and it seems to be working perfectly.

The card I was using before was not actually a CF card. It was a Sony MS Pro Duo in a MSPD -> CF adapter. This same combo refused to work in my EFIKA, so I assume it's not quite compatible enough.

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moto