Waiting for sd card

[brka]

ok i hit the search button and couldnt find anything..
i was so happy with my tpdroid until i had to reset.
now when i try and boot into droid i get a massage that says waiting for sd card..and it just keeps doing that any ideas?


i guess droid doesnt wanna pic up my 8g card anymore..reformatted still nothing windows mo picks it up tho..pop in another card 4g and it works guess this will do till i get a new 8g

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by brka

ok i hit the search button and couldnt find anything..
i was so happy with my tpdroid until i had to reset.
now when i try and boot into droid i get a massage that says waiting for sd card..and it just keeps doing that any ideas?


i guess droid doesnt wanna pic up my 8g card anymore..reformatted still nothing windows mo picks it up tho..pop in another card 4g and it works guess this will do till i get a new 8g

How did you format it? You may want to use the HP format tool or GParted instead of the 'built-in' Windows format utility...

[brka]

Originally Posted by arrrghhh

How did you format it? You may want to use the HP format tool or GParted instead of the 'built-in' Windows format utility...

where can i get those tools..it should be formatted to what files system fat 32 right?

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by brka

where can i get those tools..it should be formatted to what files system fat 32 right?

Sorry, should've linked 'em in my previous post!

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

GParted LiveCD (among other methods...)

So there ya go. FAT32 for SD cards, yes. FAT (aka FAT16) would allow only 2gb max partition size. I think NTFS and other journaled file systems are not recommended for SD cards. Please correct me if I'm wrong here, but that's my understanding!

[1100101]

I am having the same issue using a 4Gb card, which worked on builds prior to 1/21/11. I used the tools above to long format as FAT32, but still get the "Waiting for SD card" message over and over.

If I load andboot files to the stock 512mb card, Android boots no problem. I don't understand why my 4Gb no longer works, even though WM uses it just fine.

Any other ideas?

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by 1100101

I am having the same issue using a 4Gb card, which worked on builds prior to 1/21/11. I used the tools above to long format as FAT32, but still get the "Waiting for SD card" message over and over.

If I load andboot files to the stock 512mb card, Android boots no problem. I don't understand why my 4Gb no longer works, even though WM uses it just fine.

Any other ideas?

Sorry, forgot about the new kernels busting some SD cards.

Put these two commands in the 'cmdline' section of your startup.txt and try again:

msmsdcc_1bit msmsdcc_fmax=14000000

[1100101]

Originally Posted by arrrghhh

Put these two commands in the 'cmdline' section of your startup.txt and try again:

msmsdcc_1bit msmsdcc_fmax=14000000

That worked, thank you!