You guys are pretty friendly here and were incredibly helpful on my last question (Thanks Gigi!).
Here goes, i have 4 256mb SD cards (SanDisk). 3 of which are brand new and all work fine in my X5 but the one that i've had for a while and was using in my Sharp Zaurus isnt working in the X5.
I put it in and instantly get:
"An error occurred while reading the SD Card folder.
If you are unable to use this storage card, try reinserting it, or try a different card."
I tried reformatting the card as "Fat" and "Fat 32" and nothing is working. The card still works fine in my zaurus, So what happend?
i have 4 256mb SD cards (SanDisk). 3 of which are brand new and all work fine in my X5 but the one that i've had for a while and was using in my Sharp Zaurus isnt working in the X5.
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Maybe your SD card slot is dead. Hardware problem. In which case you will need to switch to CFs for storage, or get a new PDA.
Uh, No.. This PDA is actually brand new (sat for a year unused in the box in a safe, but its still new.) and like i said all my other SD cards work fine.
Are these old Sandisk cards? Sandisk and the X5 have a history of incompatibility problems. Take a look a this link. You might want to get a replacement from Sandisk if possible.
Well the 3 that are working are actually older than the 1 that is not. My school bought hundreds of these in bulk about 1.5 years ago, while the one that doesnt work was bought about 7 months ago.
Just to clearify, i've coped with the loss of space, i dont care about that. I cant even store things on the card and read them on my Axim (can store on the PC using my card reader though).
Well, maybe it's just an incompatibility. You mentioned how this SD card works with Zaurus, but my new Kingstons SD cards don't work with my Zaurus 5500 (running OpenZaurus), while it does with the X5. So, here you go...
Right, but after a format, the card should be new again, and should work. the Fat operating system will remain the same. Sandisk refuses to replace and wont explain why. Oh well.
Right, but after a format, the card should be new again, and should work. the Fat operating system will remain the same. Sandisk refuses to replace and wont explain why. Oh well.
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Tec
What exactly did you tell Sandisk? From what I've read, they are very good about replacements - they should also know about the compatibility problems between their cards and the X5.
>Right, but after a format, the card should be new again, and should work
Not necessarily. As I said, my Kingston SD card works on the X5 but not on the OpenZaurus, EVEN after a format. It's a hardware incompatibility. Maybe you got something like this, especially if this card is SDIO and not plain SD.
I explained to them my issue with my Card, told them simply that my Sharp Zaurus works fine with the card and the card doesnt work in my Dell Axim.
Maybe it was the person i spoke with, but they were pretty blunt when they said "we cant replace the item becuase it doesnt work in a certain device."
Eugenia,
Yes, necessarily. As I said, I have 4 of these cards, 3 of which work in both the Axim and the Zaurus, and the same 3 that work are OLDER than the one that doesnt. Which leads me to believe that its an issue with the card. How can that be hardware incompatibility? If the other cards of the same brand and model work fine in the same situation? I'm having a difficult time branding a problem without knowing what it is first.
Well then, NOW you make it clear. If it's the SAME MODEL, and ONLY that particular card does not work, then your CARD is to blame, obviously! Not the slots. The fact that it works on Zaurus though doesn't mean that the card is completely healthy. The Zaurus does not use the same driver that Windows uses and so the SAME errors are going to be dealt with a DIFFERENT way depending on the driver.
For example, if a sector is dead on the card, the Windows driver might not be able to deal with it, while the Zaurus driver can, because it simply uses different algorithms to deal with bad sectors. On a different kind of error the Windows driver might be successful and the Zaurus might not. It's how it is with different algorithms or even hardware slots (in some cases the hardware itself of the pda can do some error correction, zaurus' might just be of better quality than the Axim one).
When I replied the above comments I did not realize that you had 4 of the SAME cards (exact same models) that worked with both PDAs. I did not realize that you would not know of the possibility explained above.
I suggest you throw that card away. Even if your Zaurus works with it NOW, if the card is defective or is prone for more errors, you might lose data in the future. My sincere advice: throw it away.
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