4mb, 6mb SD / SDHC Cards on PPC6700/WM6??

[raulie]

The answer to this ? has been hit/miss. Can we get confirmation that we can use larger than 2gb cards with the WM6 rom on the 6700.

[luv2chill]

Yes up to 6GB cards will be possible. 8GB cards are not available yet but are expected to work as well.

[pierocksmysocks]

Yep just use the SDHC drivers found in the forum and it should work.

[ksg]

Originally Posted by pierocksmysocks

Yep just use the SDHC drivers found in the forum and it should work.

IMHO, going forward the SDHC drivers should probably be in all the new cooked ROMs, etc. There is really no good reason not to have it...

[TMB_XV6700]

Originally Posted by meh123

IMHO, going forward the SDHC drivers should probably be in all the new cooked ROMs, etc. There is really no good reason not to have it...

Last I read the SDHC drivers caused quite a few problems with the old non-SDHC cards, which virtually all 6700 owners have. That seems like a pretty good reason to make em optional. My 4GB card works just fine with the existing drivers.

[iansinger]

Originally Posted by pierocksmysocks

Yep just use the SDHC drivers found in the forum and it should work.

Well I put a Topram 4GIG in and the phone recognizes it but the camera does not.
Then upgraded to WM6 with the SDHC drivers and same problem.
Card is going back to be replaced but has to go to Taiwan when it was shipped to me out of US.

So when people say it works does it work with the camera?? My camera is Version 3.00 (Build 22844)

[TMB_XV6700]

Originally Posted by iansinger

Well I put a Topram 4GIG in and the phone recognizes it but the camera does not.
Then upgraded to WM6 with the SDHC drivers and same problem.
Card is going back to be replaced but has to go to Taiwan when it was shipped to me out of US.

So when people say it works does it work with the camera?? My camera is Version 3.00 (Build 22844)

Ian,
Perhaps some people know why (something to do with the basic SD spec), the native camera has never been able to save to storage cards with more than 2GB of available space. Thus, an empty 4GB card won't be seen by the camera. If you half-fill that card with other files and bring the free space below 2 gigs, then the camera will write to it fine. The behavior you describe seems normal for functioning 4GB non-HC cards.

[iansinger]

Originally Posted by TMB_XV6700

Ian,
Perhaps some people know why (something to do with the basic SD spec), the native camera has never been able to save to storage cards with more than 2GB of available space. Thus, an empty 4GB card won't be seen by the camera. If you half-fill that card with other files and bring the free space below 2 gigs, then the camera will write to it fine. The behavior you describe seems normal for functioning 4GB non-HC cards.

But the Topram 4GB is supposed to be an HC card as it is the old style, not the SDHC style, even though there are no markings on the card. As mine is going back are you saying if I swap it for an SDHC, with the drivers and WM6, the camera can save to it if there is no other data on the card??

Just tried and put MP3s on card to take down to less than 2GIG free and camera did work. At one point though it would not save until I cleared running programs. I think I am running the non SDHC drivers.

[TMB_XV6700]

Originally Posted by iansinger

But the Topram 4GB is supposed to be an HC card as it is the old style, not the SDHC style, even though there are no markings on the card.

To avoid confusion, I don't think anyone would call the 4GB Topram an "HC card". It's a simple 4GB card that seems to have been made to the non-HC SD spec, except it has a larger capacity than the 2GB maximum in the spec. It's been shown to work on a lot of Apaches, with the only problems I know of being data corruption under conditions of rapid repeated overwriting.

Originally Posted by iansinger

As mine is going back are you saying if I swap it for an SDHC, with the drivers and WM6, the camera can save to it if there is no other data on the card??....

No. Yours is a good question, but I've never had an SDHC card to test. If someone else cares to confirm - will the stock camera app write to an empty card >2GB if the card and drivers are both SDHC?

[PPCFreak]

Has anyone actually tested a 6gb SDHC card?
On some of the other threads, all were saying that they should work but no one actually had a 6gb SDHC card to test with.