Incorrect SD Card Size read

Aloha all. I don't know if this is really an OS question, so it may be OT,
but I don't know what it is. Maybe someone can help, or at least point me in
the right direction?
I bought a digital picture frame. I wanted to load a bunch of pics onto an
SD card. I used a 1GB SD card, and tried to load about 300MB. At 216 it
stopped and said the card was full. It's not. I then tried a 512MB card.
Same thing! I then tried a 1GB USB Flash Drive. Same thing! I then tried
both a 4GB USB Flash and SD card. Both did the complete load fine.
Why do the 1GB and under state they are full at only 216MB? I even
reformatted the cards several time with no effect. Can anyone help?

Big
Sat May 10 11:38:48 PDT 2008

LMO wrote:
> Aloha all. I don't know if this is really an OS question, so it may be OT,
> but I don't know what it is. Maybe someone can help, or at least point me in
> the right direction?
> I bought a digital picture frame. I wanted to load a bunch of pics onto an
> SD card. I used a 1GB SD card, and tried to load about 300MB. At 216 it
> stopped and said the card was full. It's not. I then tried a 512MB card.
> Same thing! I then tried a 1GB USB Flash Drive. Same thing! I then tried
> both a 4GB USB Flash and SD card. Both did the complete load fine.
> Why do the 1GB and under state they are full at only 216MB? I even
> reformatted the cards several time with no effect. Can anyone help?
>
>
Not sure where you got them, but I've heard reports of some cards are
fakes and the label is not what is inside. They say 1 gig but there is
a 256 chip inside.

Then they could be bad too. But I don't think so. I read a report that
says the architecture inside is such that one thing goes it all goes.
Again this is hearsay.

beamish
Sat May 10 13:31:02 PDT 2008



"LMO" wrote:

> Aloha all. I don't know if this is really an OS question, so it may be OT,
> but I don't know what it is. Maybe someone can help, or at least point me in
> the right direction?
> I bought a digital picture frame. I wanted to load a bunch of pics onto an
> SD card. I used a 1GB SD card, and tried to load about 300MB. At 216 it
> stopped and said the card was full. It's not. I then tried a 512MB card.
> Same thing! I then tried a 1GB USB Flash Drive. Same thing! I then tried
> both a 4GB USB Flash and SD card. Both did the complete load fine.
> Why do the 1GB and under state they are full at only 216MB? I even
> reformatted the cards several time with no effect. Can anyone help?
>
Hello,
Had a similar problem loading MP3 files.
I used this method to check the card.
Created a 490MB single MP3 file, this installed on a 512MB card without
problem.
For some reason the card would only accept a certain number of files.
If your cards or flash drive has some kind of limit, try installing large
files.
If they install then it is a matter of defining the limitation.
After loading the flash drive and cards several times this problem
disappeared.
Hope this is of some help.

take care.
beamish.

Big
Sat May 10 16:28:24 PDT 2008

beamish wrote:
>
> "LMO" wrote:
>
>> Aloha all. I don't know if this is really an OS question, so it may be OT,
>> but I don't know what it is. Maybe someone can help, or at least point me in
>> the right direction?
>> I bought a digital picture frame. I wanted to load a bunch of pics onto an
>> SD card. I used a 1GB SD card, and tried to load about 300MB. At 216 it
>> stopped and said the card was full. It's not. I then tried a 512MB card.
>> Same thing! I then tried a 1GB USB Flash Drive. Same thing! I then tried
>> both a 4GB USB Flash and SD card. Both did the complete load fine.
>> Why do the 1GB and under state they are full at only 216MB? I even
>> reformatted the cards several time with no effect. Can anyone help?
>>
> Hello,
> Had a similar problem loading MP3 files.
> I used this method to check the card.
> Created a 490MB single MP3 file, this installed on a 512MB card without
> problem.
> For some reason the card would only accept a certain number of files.
> If your cards or flash drive has some kind of limit, try installing large
> files.
> If they install then it is a matter of defining the limitation.
> After loading the flash drive and cards several times this problem
> disappeared.
> Hope this is of some help.
>
> take care.
> beamish.
>
You might be onto something. FAT file systems have a limit of 512
files in the root folder. END!!
Make a folder in root and see if you can copy a ton there.

LVTravel
Sat May 10 18:23:51 PDT 2008


"Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> beamish wrote:
>>
>> "LMO" wrote:
>>
>>> Aloha all. I don't know if this is really an OS question, so it may be
>>> OT, but I don't know what it is. Maybe someone can help, or at least
>>> point me in the right direction?
>>> I bought a digital picture frame. I wanted to load a bunch of pics onto
>>> an SD card. I used a 1GB SD card, and tried to load about 300MB. At 216
>>> it stopped and said the card was full. It's not. I then tried a 512MB
>>> card. Same thing! I then tried a 1GB USB Flash Drive. Same thing! I then
>>> tried both a 4GB USB Flash and SD card. Both did the complete load fine.
>>> Why do the 1GB and under state they are full at only 216MB? I even
>>> reformatted the cards several time with no effect. Can anyone help?
>> Hello,
>> Had a similar problem loading MP3 files.
>> I used this method to check the card.
>> Created a 490MB single MP3 file, this installed on a 512MB card without
>> problem.
>> For some reason the card would only accept a certain number of files.
>> If your cards or flash drive has some kind of limit, try installing large
>> files.
>> If they install then it is a matter of defining the limitation.
>> After loading the flash drive and cards several times this problem
>> disappeared.
>> Hope this is of some help.
>>
>> take care.
>> beamish.
>>
> You might be onto something. FAT file systems have a limit of 512 files
> in the root folder. END!!
> Make a folder in root and see if you can copy a ton there.

The OP also needs to read the documentation that came with the frame. It
may state that the thing will only hold X number of photos. I have an older
RCA MP3 player that will only play 199 files no matter what size SD card I
insert into it.

Big
Sat May 10 18:36:05 PDT 2008

LVTravel wrote:
> "Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:scqVj.22471$5Y1.1283@trnddc04...
>> beamish wrote:
>>> "LMO" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Aloha all. I don't know if this is really an OS question, so it may be
>>>> OT, but I don't know what it is. Maybe someone can help, or at least
>>>> point me in the right direction?
>>>> I bought a digital picture frame. I wanted to load a bunch of pics onto
>>>> an SD card. I used a 1GB SD card, and tried to load about 300MB. At 216
>>>> it stopped and said the card was full. It's not. I then tried a 512MB
>>>> card. Same thing! I then tried a 1GB USB Flash Drive. Same thing! I then
>>>> tried both a 4GB USB Flash and SD card. Both did the complete load fine.
>>>> Why do the 1GB and under state they are full at only 216MB? I even
>>>> reformatted the cards several time with no effect. Can anyone help?
>>> Hello,
>>> Had a similar problem loading MP3 files.
>>> I used this method to check the card.
>>> Created a 490MB single MP3 file, this installed on a 512MB card without
>>> problem.
>>> For some reason the card would only accept a certain number of files.
>>> If your cards or flash drive has some kind of limit, try installing large
>>> files.
>>> If they install then it is a matter of defining the limitation.
>>> After loading the flash drive and cards several times this problem
>>> disappeared.
>>> Hope this is of some help.
>>>
>>> take care.
>>> beamish.
>>>
>> You might be onto something. FAT file systems have a limit of 512 files
>> in the root folder. END!!
>> Make a folder in root and see if you can copy a ton there.
>
> The OP also needs to read the documentation that came with the frame. It
> may state that the thing will only hold X number of photos. I have an older
> RCA MP3 player that will only play 199 files no matter what size SD card I
> insert into it.
>
>
I was focusing on the SD Card comment, and this is a picture frame with
software to cycle through the pictures.

LMO
Sun May 11 09:53:48 PDT 2008

No, that's not the problem. As I said, when I used a 4GB SD card, all the
files loaded fine and played fine (both music and pics).
The frame will not open or play pics located in sub-directories. They all
have to be in the root.
Thanks for the feedback.

"LVTravel" <noone@nothere.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:scqVj.22471$5Y1.1283@trnddc04...
>> beamish wrote:
>>>
>>> "LMO" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Aloha all. I don't know if this is really an OS question, so it may be
>>>> OT, but I don't know what it is. Maybe someone can help, or at least
>>>> point me in the right direction?
>>>> I bought a digital picture frame. I wanted to load a bunch of pics onto
>>>> an SD card. I used a 1GB SD card, and tried to load about 300MB. At 216
>>>> it stopped and said the card was full. It's not. I then tried a 512MB
>>>> card. Same thing! I then tried a 1GB USB Flash Drive. Same thing! I
>>>> then tried both a 4GB USB Flash and SD card. Both did the complete load
>>>> fine.
>>>> Why do the 1GB and under state they are full at only 216MB? I even
>>>> reformatted the cards several time with no effect. Can anyone help?
>>> Hello,
>>> Had a similar problem loading MP3 files.
>>> I used this method to check the card.
>>> Created a 490MB single MP3 file, this installed on a 512MB card without
>>> problem.
>>> For some reason the card would only accept a certain number of files.
>>> If your cards or flash drive has some kind of limit, try installing
>>> large files.
>>> If they install then it is a matter of defining the limitation.
>>> After loading the flash drive and cards several times this problem
>>> disappeared.
>>> Hope this is of some help.
>>>
>>> take care.
>>> beamish.
>>>
>> You might be onto something. FAT file systems have a limit of 512 files
>> in the root folder. END!!
>> Make a folder in root and see if you can copy a ton there.
>
> The OP also needs to read the documentation that came with the frame. It
> may state that the thing will only hold X number of photos. I have an
> older RCA MP3 player that will only play 199 files no matter what size SD
> card I insert into it.
>

LMO
Sun May 11 13:07:36 PDT 2008

Ah ha! Problem solved. I had to reformat the card into FAT32, with 4096
block size. Now I can fill the card to its limit.

"LMO" <gcorlin@hawaii.rr.como> wrote in message
news:4825d439$0$30155$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> Aloha all. I don't know if this is really an OS question, so it may be OT,
> but I don't know what it is. Maybe someone can help, or at least point me
> in the right direction?
> I bought a digital picture frame. I wanted to load a bunch of pics onto an
> SD card. I used a 1GB SD card, and tried to load about 300MB. At 216 it
> stopped and said the card was full. It's not. I then tried a 512MB card.
> Same thing! I then tried a 1GB USB Flash Drive. Same thing! I then tried
> both a 4GB USB Flash and SD card. Both did the complete load fine.
> Why do the 1GB and under state they are full at only 216MB? I even
> reformatted the cards several time with no effect. Can anyone help?
>

Big
Sun May 11 13:31:17 PDT 2008

LMO wrote:
> Ah ha! Problem solved. I had to reformat the card into FAT32, with 4096
> block size. Now I can fill the card to its limit.
>
> "LMO" <gcorlin@hawaii.rr.como> wrote in message
> news:4825d439$0$30155$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> Aloha all. I don't know if this is really an OS question, so it may be OT,
>> but I don't know what it is. Maybe someone can help, or at least point me
>> in the right direction?
>> I bought a digital picture frame. I wanted to load a bunch of pics onto an
>> SD card. I used a 1GB SD card, and tried to load about 300MB. At 216 it
>> stopped and said the card was full. It's not. I then tried a 512MB card.
>> Same thing! I then tried a 1GB USB Flash Drive. Same thing! I then tried
>> both a 4GB USB Flash and SD card. Both did the complete load fine.
>> Why do the 1GB and under state they are full at only 216MB? I even
>> reformatted the cards several time with no effect. Can anyone help?
>>
>
>
What was it formatted to?

Onsokumaru
Mon May 12 00:38:24 PDT 2008

FAT32 can be incompatible with some devices.

I have a flash player that has the same annoyance, but won't work with fat32

If you use long file names with FAT12 or 16, (can't recall which, you can
google this to find the limit), this will reduce the number of files that
the directory can hold.

Usually all you need to do is create a directoy and put files in that until
the next limit is reached. Then repeat the process.

"LMO" <gcorlin@hawaii.rr.como> wrote in message
news:4827520d$0$12979$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> Ah ha! Problem solved. I had to reformat the card into FAT32, with 4096
> block size. Now I can fill the card to its limit.
>
> "LMO" <gcorlin@hawaii.rr.como> wrote in message
> news:4825d439$0$30155$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> Aloha all. I don't know if this is really an OS question, so it may be
>> OT, but I don't know what it is. Maybe someone can help, or at least
>> point me in the right direction?
>> I bought a digital picture frame. I wanted to load a bunch of pics onto
>> an SD card. I used a 1GB SD card, and tried to load about 300MB. At 216
>> it stopped and said the card was full. It's not. I then tried a 512MB
>> card. Same thing! I then tried a 1GB USB Flash Drive. Same thing! I then
>> tried both a 4GB USB Flash and SD card. Both did the complete load fine.
>> Why do the 1GB and under state they are full at only 216MB? I even
>> reformatted the cards several time with no effect. Can anyone help?
>>
>
>

Tim
Mon May 12 06:19:22 PDT 2008

Big Al <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote:

>LMO wrote:
>> Ah ha! Problem solved. I had to reformat the card into FAT32, with 4096
>> block size. Now I can fill the card to its limit.

>What was it formatted to?

Presumably FAT16. That file system has a limit of 512 entries in the
root directory. That's one of the things that FAT32 improved.

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