Re: Carte Blanche bug

[Steve <srkh28@gmail.com>]

SD Cards shipped with Carte Blanche are 256MB for "BITSTREAMS" and
512MB or 1GB for "DEMOCARD".
Each card was tested to ensure all files worked prior to packing. So
these should be fine.

Steve




On Oct 4, 9:42 pm, Alex Freed <alex_n...@mirrow.com> wrote:
> 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.