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Carte Blanche bug




This thing bothered me for a long time and finally I found it. For some reason some perfectly good NIB images on a SD card didn't work! To make the long story short I have discovered an embarrassing software bug in the soft z80 program: it assumed a cluster size of 32 sectors which is not always the case. The workaround is to use SD cards that are formated that way. If the NIB images on the card you got from Steve all work then your card is likely OK. If you get another card I don't know of any way to format with specific parameters under Windows but if you have a Linux box then "mkdosfs" will do the trick.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc940351.aspx

Looks like the 1 GB cards have a default cluster size of 32 so you should be OK with such cards. Bigger ones just do not support FAT16 so you will need to make a 1 GB partition.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

-Alex.