Hacking micro sd capactiy of R4?

[pikachu945]

I have R4 Original I was wondering if my micro SD 4gb(not sdhc) would work because my 2 gb snapped I found the 4gb in my cellphone I had no idea it was there lol
anyway any help would be great!




its a 4GB SDHC the "SDHC" part was wore off the card

 

[tk_saturn]

2GB, under normal circumstances because the SD specifications state that any 4GB - 32GB card should be SDHC.

4GB non-SDHC cards are not recommended for anything because they are non-standard, although there's a chance it may work on your R4.

 

[pikachu945]

why 4g will not work?

 

[twiztidsinz]

2GB, under normal circumstances because the SD specifications state that any 4GB - 32GB card should be SDHC.

4GB non-SDHC cards are not recommended for anything because they are non-standard, although there's a chance it may work on your R4.
Can you give a citation for that?
I've heard it a hand full times, but never seen anything to back the statement up.


QUOTE(pikachu945 @ Jul 10 2010, 01:13 PM) why 4g will not work?

Real R4s cannot use MicroSDHC (SDHC = Secure Digital High Capacity). Most (99%) 4GB cards are SDHC.
There are few 4GB NonSDHC cards and are often very expensive ($15USD for a 4GB SDHC vs $60USD for a 4GB Non-SDHC)

 

[tk_saturn]

Can you give a citation for that?
I've heard it a hand full times, but never seen anything to back the statement up.
The SD association state on their site the maximum capactity of a MicroSD card is 2GB, those are the standards. http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdcard/ Devices are built to those standards.

How many people have had issues with MicroSD cards because they formatted using the Windows Formatter because it didn't format them to the SD standards? How many people have solved that using the Panasonic SD formatter which does format them to the specifications?

There's a reason you don't find these on store shelves.

Is a Sandisk document proof enough for you? http://www.sandisk.com/media/File/pdf/SDHC1.pdf They might know a fair bit about MicroSD cards.

QUOTEBe aware of non-SDA 2.00 specification compliant SD 4GB, miniSD 4GB, and microSD 4GB cards on the market. If these non-compliant SD/miniSD/microSD 4GB cards record data in a SDHC host, and are then used in a legacy SD/miniSD/microSD host, issues and problems may occur. File system incompatibility, data corruption, and potentially you may actually lose the data/pictures. In addition, if these non-compliant SD/miniSD/microSD 4GB cards are inserted into a legacy SD/miniSD/microSD host device, the host device may not recognize/utilize the card as 4GB, and it instead may read as a 2GB card. If the SD/miniSD/microSD 4GB card does not have SDHC/miniSDHC/microSDHC on it, it is not SD 2.00 compliant.

Also remember that a 4GB MicroSDHC gets formatted using FAT32 based on the specifications, a MicroSD should be formatted using FAT16, and a 4GB can't be formatted using FAT16 as the partition limit is 2GB.

 

[RupeeClock]

Yeah, I've heard about these non-SDHC 4gb microSDs too, I recall it being on an old R4DS compatibility list. There's no real reason to get one of those, at all.

But Pikachu945, don't you have an Acekard 2i?

 

[alidsl]

If you want more than 2gig it would be cheaper to buy another card rather than buy a 4gb non-SDHC

 

[tk_saturn]

If you want more than 2gig it would be cheaper to buy another card rather than buy a 4gb non-SDHC

He already has one, as in the first post he found it in his cellphone. It's also a SDHC, just that the SDHC logo has worn off.

 

[riverchen]

SDHC is usually 4-32 gigs

Origianal r4 will NOT SUPPORT SDHC.
If it's not SDHC r4 will most likely accept it