praxis Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 I have purchased a Sandisk 4gb Sd card for use with the RNS-E data card slots. I have dragged and dropped a number (about 100) of mp3 music files onto the card. When I insert this into the RNS-E I get the message "Loading card....do not remove". After 10mins I am still getting this message. Is this right and I am just being impatient or am I doing something wrong? Any advice would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo1 Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 Have you formatted the card as NTFS by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolDave Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 You have to format it as either FAT16 or FAT32 to work in the RNS-E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praxis Posted April 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 Thanks. I had not realsed the card could not be used without formatting as it works Ok on my computer. I will give that a go and hope it does the trick. Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamread Posted April 14, 2007 Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 hi murray, if it is 4GB. format it to FAT32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolDave Posted April 14, 2007 Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 [ QUOTE ] if it is 4GB. format it to FAT32 [/ QUOTE ] Second that. FAT32 is the best choice for all sizes of SD cards, and FAT16 can only be used up to 2GB anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praxis Posted April 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2007 Right, I have checked the formatting which is FAT32. To be absolutely sure I have reformattd the card as FAT 32, dragged and dropped about 20 mp3 files onto the card, loaded it into one of the RNS-E slots, I simply get the message "Loading....." Nothing actually happens. I have tried both slots for good measure, get the same response on both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tainted_love Posted April 15, 2007 Report Share Posted April 15, 2007 i may be wrong here but i think the units are only limited to using a maximum of 2gb. have you tried any other cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markpaq Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Is it a standard SD 4Gb card or a SDHC one? IIRC the RNS-E doesn't support the HC flavour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edo Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 4gb works. Limitation is the number of files/folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolDave Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 I use mostly 4G SD (not SDHC because they don't work) cards - formatted to FAT32. Limitation on files/folders is 512 - that's the total of ALL files and folders (including MP3 and M3U files and all folders and sub-folders). Other limitation is that the total path length of a file cannot be longer than 64 characters - so if you have long file names in long folder names they might "go missing". Final known limitation is that some non-alphanumeric characters are not accepted. Characters like "!". Try inspecting the contents of the SD card on your PC and check all the above limitations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupramax Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Yep, second that, make sure all non alphanumeric i.e. "!@'() etc etc are out of all the file names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praxis Posted April 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Thanks for al the help. My card turned outto be th SC flavour after all. Non SC cards work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolDave Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Thanks for al the help. My card turned outto be th SC flavour after all. Non SC cards work fine. [/ QUOTE ] Since SDHC cards became available more and more people are buying them to use in their RNS-E (we all want the latest and best thing don't we?), but like murray (and many others) have found THEY DON'T WORK. Stick to SD cards and leave the SDHC ones on the shelves ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praxis Posted April 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 That SDHC card won't work in the wife's digital camara either which was only bought 6 months ago, so its not just a RNS-E problem. Until now I was unaware there was any difference!! Anyone want a slightly used 4Gb SDHC card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techieboy Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Anyone want a slightly used 4Gb SDHC card? [/ QUOTE ] Might well take it off your hands after tomorrow. If I buy the Nikon D40x SLR camera I'm going to have a play with at the shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markpaq Posted April 20, 2007 Report Share Posted April 20, 2007 If Techieboy doesn't want it I'll take it. It'll work a treat in my D80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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