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frankenbike · 06-17-05, 04:49 PM

Until the 2gb cards came out, Dell techs were telling everyone that the largest card the Axim could possibly handle was 1gb. They turned out to be wrong.

However, if the Axims are using a 16 bit file system like FAT and not a 32 bit system like FAT32, then the theoretical limit supposedly is 2.1 gigs for a straight file system (I'm probably wrong, but I think it's 16^8/2). But likely as not, there's software that could be integrated into a flash card that could mitigate that problem.

I'd put my money on 4 gig cards working if and when they come out, and I'd also put my money on them being delayed as they try to design them to work with 16 bit file systems.

06-17-05, 04:49 PM	#4 (permalink)
frankenbike Aximsite All Star Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 685 iTrader Rating: (0) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts View MyPDA	Until the 2gb cards came out, Dell techs were telling everyone that the largest card the Axim could possibly handle was 1gb. They turned out to be wrong. However, if the Axims are using a 16 bit file system like FAT and not a 32 bit system like FAT32, then the theoretical limit supposedly is 2.1 gigs for a straight file system (I'm probably wrong, but I think it's 16^8/2). But likely as not, there's software that could be integrated into a flash card that could mitigate that problem. I'd put my money on 4 gig cards working if and when they come out, and I'd also put my money on them being delayed as they try to design them to work with 16 bit file systems. __________________ Frankenbike If you want to see the crap I have on and for my Axim, click View MyPDA.