Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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antlists wrote:
> On 22/06/2020 11:56, Walter Dnes wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:28:17AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
>>
>>> The SD standard says >33G should use exFAT, this is why many devices
>>> state they only support cards up to 32G. The really mean they only
>>> support FAT. My Dashcam is like this but it happily works with a 128G
>>> card, once I reformatted it with FAT.
>> Warning; that still does not change the fact that each individual file
>> cannot exceed 4G in size on regular FAT.
>>
> Warning 2: I did exactly that, and it LOOKED like it was working
> happily, until it overflowed some internal limit and my 1G card turned
> into a 128M card or whatever it was. Have you actually TESTED that
> card IN THE DASHCAM and made sure it can actually use that 128G? Or
> will it only be able to use 4G of that card?
>
> Oh - and 32GB cards are physically different from 128GB cards because
> they work to different standards. That's why so many of the old "real
> SD" card devices only ever use up to 2GB. You CAN (or could) get 4GB
> SD cards, but they were rare, so most people couldn't find them. The
> SD standard was replaced by SDHC, which is why your fileformat changes
> at 32GB, which is the maximum capacity of an SDHC card. Above 32GB
> it's SDXC, which is another reason why sticking a larger card into a
> device which says "up to 32GB" is a bad idea - it may not be able to
> handle SDXC.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol

I recall them being called something different.  I'm in no hurry to buy
a card just to test tho.  I'll have to find a good excuse to buy one.  lol 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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