Swapping Sd Cards

[NEIL L]

When I swap SD cards after going back to the main Wiz menu, the Wiz can't pick up any games on the 2nd one unless I turn the Wiz off then turn it back on.
Do you have to turn it off to swap SD cards? (I only filled my 1st one today, so this is new to me!)
Cheers, Neil

 

[Audi]

I always turn the wiz off to change cards

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

I think this is random, on my Wiz it sometimes picks up the SD card after swapping and sometimes I have to reset.

 

[NEIL L]

Thanks for your help, at least it's just not my Wiz that does it then!
Hopefully they'll fix this on the next firmware release.

 

[Spykez]

its happened since the first firmware, I've got a thread about it somewhere.

 

[promisedplanet]

I have the latest firmware and have never had to restart my Wiz in order to get it to recognize the contents.

 

[Squidge]

The Wiz runs Linux, so the card is "mounted" when you insert it into the slot and "unmounted" when you remove it. However if there are any open files on the card when you remove it, the unmount will be refused by the OS to prevent data corruption. It doesn't know the card is physically removable. What this means is that when you then place another card in, the mount will fail as the previous mount was not unmounted.

To best way around this is only ever remove the card once you are on the Wiz menu screen, and also wait a few seconds to ensure all file closes are recognised by the OS.