The Leewit Needs Your Help
Saturday, March 1st, 2008 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniThe Leewit is an Asus subcompact that weighs less than the book I'm reading at the moment. It has 1024 MB of memory and is running eee-PC 1.0 (which is based on the Linux flavor known as Xandros) on an Intel mobile processor. For ease of moving things between it and the desktop (still no wireless at the Confusion Factory; we're working on it, but it's 'waaaaay down the list and not moving up very fast due to the various necessary things that keep jumping line) -- anyhow. Because the Leewit has very little on-board memory, I bought it a 4-gig PNY SD card. The idea was to save everything I worked on to the card, then move the card to the desktop and download. Simple, easy, efficient.
Except. The desktop -- an HP Pavilion, call-name Altair, that I keep thinking of as "the new computer," though it's obviously not, since it's running XP version 2002 -- does not recognize something so heady and strange as a 4-gig card.
Now the Leewit, which can see and save to this card justfinethanks, informs me that it is looking at Partition One. Which gives rise to the notion that there Could Be a Partition Two and indeed a Partition Three, if I only knew how to partition SD cards in Linux. And! the thought further goes that, if the partitions are small enough and tasty, the desktop will be able to see them.
So, techie-types: Is the second assumption at all valid? And, if so, can someone walk me through the partitioning process?
Abundant Spanish Aunts.
Except. The desktop -- an HP Pavilion, call-name Altair, that I keep thinking of as "the new computer," though it's obviously not, since it's running XP version 2002 -- does not recognize something so heady and strange as a 4-gig card.
Now the Leewit, which can see and save to this card justfinethanks, informs me that it is looking at Partition One. Which gives rise to the notion that there Could Be a Partition Two and indeed a Partition Three, if I only knew how to partition SD cards in Linux. And! the thought further goes that, if the partitions are small enough and tasty, the desktop will be able to see them.
So, techie-types: Is the second assumption at all valid? And, if so, can someone walk me through the partitioning process?
Abundant Spanish Aunts.
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Date: 2008-03-01 04:54 pm (UTC)Original SD cards max out at 4Gb. SDHC is a new, non-backward-incompatible version that starts at 4Gb and maxes out with 32Gb cards. SDHC readers can read old SD cards, but SD card readers can't read SDHC cards.
The Eee has an SDHC slot, and your 4Gb card may very well be SDHC. But it's possible that if you HP is more than about 2 years old it won't play with SDHC at all. This is a hardware-level incompatability -- partitioning or reformatting won't help.
(The solution is a USB-to-SDHC card reader, which should cost you about $10. Or go on eBay and look for a shiny new 16Gb or 32Gb SDHC card -- the Eee will take them! -- that comes with a free USB reader.)
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Date: 2008-03-01 05:29 pm (UTC)Yeah, I totally missed that the 4Gb card is SDHC and therefore not at all the same as the 2Gb SD card in my camera, only, yanno, bigger.
Or go on eBay and look for a shiny new 16Gb or 32Gb SDHC card -- the Eee will take them! -- that comes with a free USB reader.)
The man, he tempted me...