Bloody SD cards

Post by **rjkflyer** » Fri May 08, 2009 10:16 am

Yes Stu, you're right that the Disk Utility shows only 'FAT' available but actually does FAT32 - my card was FAT16 out of the box, but became FAT32 on reformatting.

An idea: i have read that trying a reformatted card with JUST ONE .mp3 file on it sometimes kicks the head unit into reading the card. God knows why, but worth a try.

Post by **Raith** » Fri May 08, 2009 9:48 pm

PetrolDave has already alluded to this, POON, are you sure that you have a 2GB SD card and not SDHC? If I recall correctly, 2GB cards were the sweetspot for SD and SDHC variants with both versions being readily available so you could easily have picked up a SDHC version which will not work.

Also speed certainly doesn't hurt ... I picked up a couple of 2GB Class 6 OCZ SD cards and when i tried to transfer a whole number of files at once, they had no write errors, whereas my standard SD cards fumbled terribly.

Post by **poon** » Fri May 08, 2009 10:24 pm

well the card says SD not SDHC, other than that I am not sure how to tell SD from SDHC????

Post by **PetrolDave** » Sat May 09, 2009 10:25 am

Raith wrote:If I recall correctly, 2GB cards were the sweetspot for SD and SDHC variants with both versions being readily available so you could easily have picked up a SDHC version which will not work.

4GB is the cross over point for SD and SDHC.

<= 2GB = SD, will work.

4GB = SD or SDHC, buy only the SD ones.

>= 8GB = SDHC, will not work.

To be strictly accurate SDHC is in sizes between 4GB and 32GB, above that (up to 32TB) are SDXC.

Post by **Raith** » Wed May 13, 2009 4:08 pm

I stand corrected. thanks PetrolDave.

Poon, any luck? Have you tried other SD Cards?

Post by **poon** » Wed May 13, 2009 4:55 pm

all sorted, Dave sent me a 16mb card that has all the right formatting etc on, I got 2 x 2gb cards from Staples £7 each and formatted them on a pc (neighbours) and transferred music from a stick. My iTunes music had already been imported as MP3's on my iMac so it was a case of transferring from the library files onto a stick. The PC recognised loads of little 4kb files which needed deleting just to tidy things up.

But all works well now, can't see me bothering with ipod/phatnoise.

although I must say my griffin FM thingy works surprisingly well in the Audi, in my GT3RS it was crap.

Thanks to Dave

Post by **RS2GO** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:26 pm

PetrolDave wrote:Here's what has worked for me reliably for the last 4 years:

5) (optional) create an M3U playlist for each album and store that in the root folder - this makes it easier to choose which album to play and lets you choose the 8 characters that get displayed on the DIS.

How do i do this please?

Thanks

Post by **PetrolDave** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:14 pm

RS2GO wrote:
PetrolDave wrote:Here's what has worked for me reliably for the last 4 years:

5) (optional) create an M3U playlist for each album and store that in the root folder - this makes it easier to choose which album to play and lets you choose the 8 characters that get displayed on the DIS.
How do i do this please?

Thanks

I use a free program called "Playlist Creator 3", Google that and download it.

Post by **basilbrush** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 3:58 pm

just a quick question guys. where are you getting your 4GB SD cards from? I've been looking for ages now and can only find the newer SDHC versions which as I understand will not work! so currently I'm stuck with 2x 2GB SD cards

any suggestions?

Post by **Billy** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:23 pm

Got mine from here mate

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001 ... HV8CAC2H7K

Post by **basilbrush** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:03 pm

Thanks Billy!

Post by **MoRS6+** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 2:30 pm

Being the tight git I am, I've been looking all over the net at prices for these and have gotten quite a bit more knowledge of SD cards in the process!

Anyway, my question(s): The Amazon (Transcend 4Gb 133x Non-SDHC) card in Billy's link above shows a speed of 133x but during my various searches came across a 150x SD (non-SDHC) card on ebay, though it was damn pricey at 32.95!! Does anyone know (hint PetrolDave) what speed my 2004 RNS-E (RS6+) would support?

In any event, the 150x card still wouldn't be worth it at double the price of the 133x one - but I'm just curious as to what speed the older RNS-E units will support.

As I currently understand things, the SD card specification 1.0 will only support up to 66x and SD card specification 1.1 will support 'double-speed mode' at 133x. So I guess I should be asking what SD specification are the older RNS-E units (mine must be one of the first being a 2004 RNS-E)??

Post by **PetrolDave** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:09 pm

MoRS6+ wrote:Being the tight git I am, I've been looking all over the net at prices for these and have gotten quite a bit more knowledge of SD cards in the process!

Anyway, my question(s): The Amazon (Transcend 4Gb 133x Non-SDHC) card in Billy's link above shows a speed of 133x but during my various searches came across a 150x SD (non-SDHC) card on ebay, though it was damn pricey at 32.95!! Does anyone know (hint PetrolDave) what speed my 2004 RNS-E (RS6+) would support?

In any event, the 150x card still wouldn't be worth it at double the price of the 133x one - but I'm just curious as to what speed the older RNS-E units will support.

As I currently understand things, the SD card specification 1.0 will only support up to 66x and SD card specification 1.1 will support 'double-speed mode' at 133x. So I guess I should be asking what SD specification are the older RNS-E units (mine must be one of the first being a 2004 RNS-E)??

I used to have a really old (2004) RNS-E that would ONLY work with Hi-Speed (133x or 150x) SD cards, but my last RNS-E (a 2005 model) and my current one (a 2010 model) seem quite happy with just about any SD card I use.

So I don't see any point paying a premium for the 150x SD cards.

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