rx3715 and big SD cards

[pbgb]

Hello all

I am buying an SD card for an Ipaq rx3715 is there a limit on the maximum size card I can install into my PDA?

Anything I should know about?


Thanks
Paul

[AnswerDude]

No there is no limit currently, regular sd card should work fine. You'll need to format it as FAT32. However SDHC will not work on any WM devices.

[yanm22]

Hello,
I've just bought this Sandisk memory card and, alas only then found out it is not supported by Mio 350m, and they don't want to take it back. Is there any backdoor possibility to make it work? Some Patch software?

Thanks!

[106112909]

Hi

As far as I know, SD cards have only officially been tested up to 2GB so you're taking a risk if you r=try anything higher. As AnswerDude has pointed-out, SDHC cards will not work. Many people have had problems with 4GB SD cards so I would leave them alone.

Regards

Patrick

[yankeejeep]

Prior to SDHC (as noted above, not supported by WM devices), SD cards larger than 2 gigs got there by using different compression algorithms. These are also not supported by WM and so either do not work or are unstable, giving unreliable results in WM devices. Stick with standard SD cards, which top off at the 2 gig size.

[106112909]

So SD cards larger that 2GB use compresseio. If the compression algorythm was build in the card itself then you would be able to use it in whatever device. From what yankeejeep says, it seems that the device tiself does the compression and that WM devices do not have this software built-in.