[iyonix-support] Re: !ROFS updated

Quoting Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Thu 14 Feb, Dave Higton wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > With the 4GB SDHC card inserted I can read it with !ROFS (hurrah!) and
> > > don't know why this didn't work before.
> > 
> > Well, at least sanity is restored.  I couldn't understand why !ROFS
> > didn't appear to work for you, unless you were using an SDHC card
> > with a non-SDHC-compatible reader - clearly not the case.
> 
> Talking about SDHC I'm confused!
> Why do you need a special card reader for SDHC?
> I thought devices (cameras etc) that use SDHC normally come with an adaptor
> SDHC to SD. Some SDHC cards come with such an adaptor!
> 
> I do realise that with the HC standing for High Capacity many/most SDHC
> cards will be >2GB and not readable with SoftSCSI on the Iyonix or MASSFS on
> UniPod etc. 
> 
> I've tried google but was no more enlightned

My enlightenment came from Wikipedia.

It appears that the original SD standard is not capable of addressing
more than 2 GB, so something had to change in order to handle larger
card capacities.

I've never noticed sn SDHC card of less than 4 GB.

Dave
---
To alter your preferences or leave the group, 
visit http://www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support
Other info via http://www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support

Other related posts: