SD Cards and Disk Utility Question

[ChaosWarmech]

So two SD cards that I ordered just came in today, and the first thing I wanted to do was benchmark both of them just out of curiosity. I completely erased the drive and then tried to benchmark with Disk Utility(Ubuntu), but it failed saying that there was still a partition table. So I tried

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=4MiB count=100

And it worked just fine, and then I was able to benchmark it with the gui afterwards.


So when you erase a drive there still is a partition table hiding and the only way to delete it is to write over it with nothing? Can somebody shed some light on this for me?


Also, what file system would you recommend for use with the pandora?

 

[DaMummy]

before anything else, use some h2testw on it

 

[Nintendo]

FAT32

 

[Asiyura]

Depends on which OS you're using on you main computer.


If it's linux or osx go for ext2, I would say.


If it's windows once the codec pack will be installed on your pandora, you'll be able to use NTFS.

 

[Nintendo]

Yeah, I forgot about that, as I only have 1 Linux system in my household, which is Pandora.

 

[ChaosWarmech]

Depends on which OS you're using on you main computer.


If it's linux or osx go for ext2, I would say.


If it's windows once the codec pack will be installed on your pandora, you'll be able to use NTFS.

Oh nice, I didn't realize NTFS would be supported. My main computer is dual boot Ubuntu/Win7 so I'll probably go with NTFS so I can access the files on both systems.


Now that you've mentioned something in the Codec pack I didn't know about I'm curious what all is included in it. Is there a list somewhere? I was unable to find one..

 

[Prometheus]

Here;

Spoiler

boost-date-time_1.41.0-r8.1.5


boost-thread_1.41.0-r8.1.5


directfb_1.4.2-r0.5


gnash_0.8.5-r6.5


gnome-mplayer_0.9.9.2-r10.0.5


gst-plugin-alaw_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-alpha_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-alphacolor_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-alsaspdif_0.10.6-r2.1


gst-plugin-annodex_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-apetag_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-audiofx_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-auparse_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-autodetect_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-avi_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-bayer_0.10.6-r2.1


gst-plugin-bz2_0.10.6-r2.1


gst-plugin-cairo_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-cdxaparse_0.10.6-r2.1


gst-plugin-cutter_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-debug_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-deinterlace_0.10.6-r2.1


gst-plugin-dfbvideosink_0.10.6-r2.1


gst-plugin-dvb_0.10.6-r2.1


gst-plugin-dvdspu_0.10.6-r2.1


gst-plugin-efence_0.10.13-r1.1


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gst-plugin-flxdec_0.10.13-r1.1


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gst-plugin-rawparse_0.10.6-r2.1


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gst-plugin-vcdsrc_0.10.6-r2.1


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gst-plugin-videobox_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-videocrop_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-videoflip_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-videomixer_0.10.13-r1.1


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gst-plugin-vmnc_0.10.6-r2.1


gst-plugin-wavenc_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-wavparse_0.10.13-r1.1


gst-plugin-y4menc_0.10.6-r2.1


libaudiofile0_0.2.6-r8.5


libdiscid0_0.2.2-r0.5


libdvdcss2_1.2.10-r1.5


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libneon25_0.25.5-r4.5


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libxss1_1.2.0-r1.5


mplayer_0.0+1.0rc3+svnr30165-r20.5


mplayer-common_0.0.1-r1.5

This list was copied from the official website - all I did was format it to be read as a list, instead of as long lines of text.

 

[ChaosWarmech]

This list was copied from the official website - all I did was format it to be read as a list, instead of as long lines of text.

D'oh! I guess I shoulda checked there first, eh? I checked the wiki and the forums, but not there... Thanks!