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Carte Blanche bug
- Subject: Carte Blanche bug
- From: Alex Freed <alex_news@mirrow.com>
- Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:42:16 -0700
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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.