[iyonix-support] Re: !ROFS updated
- From: dave higton <davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:54:14 +0000
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
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