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Whats the max size of SD cards people have got working and what make. I have got a couple of 2gig ScanDisk cards but get an error of unrecognised files or something like that.

Cheers

Liam

the rns-e will not accept hdlc cards only pure sd. i have a 4gb sd card in mine. the other issue is that you can only have 512 total file names in the full directory structure. the upside of this is that you can use the highest bit rates and not worry about storage....

skiwi, what make SD card have you got then? I think the file names may be too long so am re-naming them and will try again.

All ok now i have reduced the length of the names.

Whats this sd slot? Where is it?

behind the screen of the rns-e sat-nav.

still dont get it. What is it for and how does the screen come out?

You probably have an RNS-D which doesn't have it. The RNS-E is widescreen with one big knob whereas the D is 4:3 aspect ratio with a bigger knob each side.

the rns-e is a dvd-based sat nav system. not oem until the rs6+ came out but a very good retrofit. the unit has 2 sd card slots behind the screen which can deliver mp3's to the unit. the big advantage of this over the ipod interface, is that you have full scrolling of tracks/names etc whereas the lack of idtags from the ipod means that you simply see track numbers...

skiwi wrote:the rns-e is a dvd-based sat nav system. not oem until the rs6+ came out but a very good retrofit. the unit has 2 sd card slots behind the screen which can deliver mp3's to the unit. the big advantage of this over the ipod interface, is that you have full scrolling of tracks/names etc whereas the lack of idtags from the ipod means that you simply see track numbers...

Thanks skiwi. That answers my question.

Just to resurrect this thread : is 4GB the largest anyone has (successfully) used these SD cards in the RNS-E?

Yes. It doesn't support SDHC and the biggest non-HC card you can get is 4GB. Not only that but most manufacturers only go to 2GB. The general concensus is to buy Transcend 4GB cards, which I have and I've never had any trouble with them. Same rules apply though, that you can still only have ~512 total files and folders anyway. If all you're storing is music tracks, then chances are you'll hit the file limit before you exceed 2GB anyway - unless you're sampling at very high bitrates or you have really long tracks such as audio novels (which I do, to be honest). IMO, on a day-to-day basic, switching from RNS-E from RNS-D was a better improvement than a Milltek or remap!

I've been buying twin packs of Sandisk SD 2Gb card from Tesco for £13. Buying a pack every few months. Easy, cheap, and you can have a tiny box of them in the glove box so a never ending supply of music.

Until I successfully get the Audi AMI thing wired in - trying this next month - then 250Gb portable HD could be possible!

Thanks guys!