Loubear
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I mean this either through the existing port (probably not possible, just wondering because I dont know) or through a usb reader?
What is Sdhc? I guess I am off to Google it now.I mean this either through the existing port (probably not possible, just wondering because I dont know) or through a usb reader?
I figured neither of these were what you meant, it looks like you meant SDHC, or more clearly: SD HC which at least suggests that we are dealing with SD cards and an acronym, need to capitolize it if it is an acronym you know.School District of Hillsborough County :www.sdhc.k12.fl.us/
San Diego Housing Commission :www.sdhc.net/
SDHC is not backwards compatible and can only be used in an SDHC host device. You can use regular SD media in an SDHC host device.
It looks like a format that will flop:
The reason they are using SDHC is because FAT32 formatting does not conform with the SD specification, so they make SDHC (HC=high capacity). HOW ABOUT YOU JUST MAKE DEVICES THAT SUPPORT FAT32 RETARDS!!
Why do they need SDHC if the current 28-bit mode goes to 128GB?? I am sure that is going to be enough for a few years, but this next bit may offer an explanation.Capacity limit in all SD/MMC formats appears to be 128 GB in LBA mode (28-bit sector address).
Until 2006 the compatibility with SD Cards of 2GB or more was very poor. Most commercial card readers (including those from SanDisk, Kingstone,... and those built in devices), PDAs and cameras fails to work with such big cards for many different reasons. In 2006 card readers starting to support those cards as they are more common. This caused anger to many customers who was purchasing the cameras and media players and expecting them to work with big SD Cards as well as when searching for card reader able to read data back to computer.
Not concrete facts, news and hearsay. No facts until we have one and somebody pays for the license to develop drivers for it.Read. Engadget!
Here's another somewhat informative web page about SDHC: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-sdhc-cards.htm
I'm afraid I still don't understand what the big deal is though. All the articles I've seen seem to say that SD tops out at 2GB... but aren't there alread 4GB SD cards on the market, or are these actually SDHC's? If I'm not mistaken, I've heard that at least one or two brands of 4GB cards do in fact work on the GP2X... Also, some articles seem to imply that normal SD cards can only handle FAT12 and FAT16 formatting, but that is obviously not the case...
As far as I can tell, SDHC seems to just be an extension of the SD specification that will include technologies that are already being used (mainly FAT32)... considering many devices wouldn't understand FAT32, it seems logical to have some sort of branding to prevent confusing... Is there any electrical difference at all?
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No, these cards START at 4gbs. That's the minimum.
Well I've got a SD HC card winging it's way to me as we speak, as I only looked at it reading FAT32 and bought on impulse. Has anyone actually confirmed whether it works with the GP2X?