Re: [ARMini-support] CDVDBurn
- From: Jim Lesurf <jcgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 11:22:41 +0100
Progress... :-)
Jeff told me that Fat32Fs should be OK for files up to 4GB - 1 byte. Which
let me focus on other possible causes of the 'freeze' generated when I
tried to copy large files onto an SD card. I've now had success with
copying.
I had been using a 'Hama' 16GB SD card plugged into the SD card slot. This
always froze the machine when I tried to copy a 2GB file onto it.
Instead I tried a 'SanDisc' 8GB SD card in a SD-USB adaptor stick plugged
into one of the USB sockets on the front of the ARMiniX. This worked fine.
I was able to copy the large files onto this.
I then plugged the SD card into the SD slot on my Linux laptop, copied the
files to its main HD. Then cat'ed them together as one large file and used
xfburn to write a DVD+R.
This worked fine. It did the burn much faster than CDVDBurn at 'x16'. And
the result is accessible with CDFS on my ARMiniX in the normal manner.
(This overcomes the problem with earlier burns using the ARMiniX that CDFS
couldn't access the result.)
So it looks like either the 'Hama' card or the slot have a problem with
large files, or that the combination don't get on very well.
I've also noticed that now the 'Hama' card only has 9 GB free and 6 GB
'used' despite showing no files. So I assume the freezes caused space for
the large files to be assigned, but deleting the 0 byte long files hasn't
actually freed this.
I've asked Jeff if there is a way of fixing that without having to do a
reformat. (I'm wary of a fat32 reformat in case i reformat the partition on
my main SD harddisc!!)
I'll do some more experiments when I get a chance.
Jim
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