Hot-swapping Sd Cards

[vaustein]

Hi all,

Two questions I have after reading both the GP2X official Engrish manual and the GP2X.co.uk supplied manual.

1) Can the SD card be safely inserted after powering-on the GP2X?

2) Once a card is inserted and the unit is powered and has completed the boot sequence, may the SD card be removed and replaced with another SD card?

Thanks!

 

[TelcoLou]

1) Yes
2) Yes

... for FW 2.0, the above 2 statements are true.

 

[DemonStar55]

mine stopped working like that... now it just shows the old SD's files so I have to reboot

 

[iignotus]

mine stopped working like that... now it just shows the old SD's files so I have to reboot

Same here. And if my 2x isn't booted with one in it, it won't recognise one until a reboot.

 

[zektor]

Hopefully this issue is resolved in a future firmware release. I encounter this problem as well. The SD card sometimes (not all the time for me however) does not get refreshed.

 

[Winterkid]

Until it's fixed, is there a program you can keep in the root of all your SD cards or in the NAND that would refresh the SD directories?

 

[PSyMastR]

Just go into the file explorer App. It remounds everything.

 

[Squidge]

If you remove the SD card from the unit whilst it is being used, then it will not recognise a new sd card until reboot. However, if you only swap SD cards at the menu for example, then you shouldn't have a problem.

You could always telnet to the device and type "umount /mnt/sd" and see what it says. If it says "device is busy", then something is still trying to use the card.

 

[Aimless_E]

Oddly I only started having issues with hot swaping cards after I formated them to fat32 they were previously fat16.

But Hey, how often do you need to swap SD cards anyway?

 

[culprit]

I remember having this problem but only once:

I tried hot swapping the card and the OS siezed. Had to restart.
Another time, I tried hot swapping the files on the explorer wont get refreshed i-e I'd still see the old directory structure.

That is it. I haven't had a problem afterwards. But then again I've only got my gp2x 2 days ago...
Note: My SD card has a FAT32 filesystem.