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    Formatting To Fat32, Can Anyone Help?

    Looked promising. Unfortunately it crashes on startup: "SWISNIFE caused an invalid page fault ..." blah blah blah. To be precise, it crashes as soon as I plug my card reader in: sweet :o
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    Firmware Update

    Um: login required.
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    Firmware Upgrade Compatible Cards And Faq

    I'm pretty confident it's not power, though I wouldn't try the upgrade without fresh batteries. The GP2X is very sensitive about SD format: the problem seems to be discovering precisely what it's looking for, and how to give it that on every platform we have (Linux, WXP, WSE, OSX).
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    Updating Firmware?

    I suspect all the incompatibilites we're seeing are down to low level format issues. Does anybody have a good reference on how SD cards are formatted?
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    Updating Firmware?

    My GP2X now won't look at my card! I used the OSX command 'newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/disk1' to reformat it (as suggested by iignotus), and the card still works (OSX reads and writes it just fine), but the GP2X can't see it at all (and, of course, now refuses to connect over USB). Sigh. Going...
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    Firmware Upgrade Compatible Cards And Faq

    Well, I tried formatting my card as "MSDOS" format using the OSX Disk Utility and a card reader ... and now my USB connection is lost again. The contents of the card are visible in the GP2X explorer, so it's a working format, but it's evidently not good enough either for updating the firmware...
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    Firmware Upgrade Compatible Cards And Faq

    Do you know how to do that under OSX?
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    Updating Firmware?

    Anybody fancy having a go at writing a procedure here, Upgrading Firmware, that actually works? This card issue really sucks. I'm getting really pissed off at the half-baked state of the firmware: I can't even upgrade it? WTF :angry:
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    Firmware Upgrade Compatible Cards And Faq

    Well, I just tried with a PNY 1GB card. The GP2X seems to see the card ok, but following the upgrade procedure (for the 12/Nov patch, gp2xkernel.img) does the following: The gp2xkernel.img file is deleted from the flash The kernel is not upgraded. Info tells me I'm running VERSION 1.0, MODEL...
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    Possible Cause For Dodgy Usb Connection?

    Curiouser and curiouser. I got myself a card reader, and according to Disk Utility it's already formatted (I can't actually figure out what format is being used: can somebody remind me of the appropriate Unix command to interrogate the file system type of a mounted file system? `mount` just...
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    Request For Sticky Threads

    I think the "Issues" page is developing nicely. A good excuse for a bump ;)
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    Possible Cause For Dodgy Usb Connection?

    Alas, maybe not :( This time USB Prober (OSX) sees a bit more, and reports: High Speed device @ 2 (0x5B200000): ... Unknown device (did not respond to inquiry) Sigh. Maybe the card needs formatting? If so, something more to add to the growing USB wiki entry... Dammit, I don't want to...
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    Possible Cause For Dodgy Usb Connection?

    "GP2X sales" (gp2x.co.uk) have confirmed the SD card dependency, so I've updated the wiki accordingly. Maybe I'll be back in business at the weekend after all! B)
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    Gamepark Holdings And Linux

    I have to say I find this explanation of "GPH DRM" quite unconvincing. Any purely software based protection will be broken quite quickly, so it's a safe bet that they are indeed aspiring to some form of hardware based DRM. I find the current attempts to dodge around this and pretend that it's...
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    Possible Cause For Dodgy Usb Connection?

    Needs checking... If so this is very important, and indeed should be added right at the start of the "USB Problems" section of the Current GP2X Issues page. It's a shame there's no way to export what the file system on the NAND looks like: I was looking forward to poking around through the USB...
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