Support and General Use > Hardware

256GB SDXC in various Sansas - fails on Clip+

(1/7) > >>

Doghouse Riley:
The only thing I bought on Amazon prime day was a 256GB Samsung SDXC.   Been wanting to see if I can double the size of my music library in Rockbox, but was waiting for the first decent sized price break.

Opened up the package, stuck the card in my adapter, did the FAT32 format thing, completed without errors.

Copied a couple of dozen mp3 and ogg files to the card, popped it in the Clip+.  Whoops!  boots up with an ATA error 4 showing above the logo, and no keypresses work.

Ok, tried reformatting with a different sector size and "slow format".  Same result on the Clip+.

So I went back to my box of players and pulled out the two other Sansa models I own, an e260 and a Fuze V2.

EUREKA!!  both worked fine - I went back and filled about 190GB of the card with music, audiobooks, and videos.   They all play fine on the two older models, but still no joy on the Clip+, same error.

Anyone know if this is a hardware limitation on the Clip  >:(, or is it something that Rockbox can be modded to fix?  :)

saratoga:
Are the clip and the fuze running the same version of rockbox?

Doghouse Riley:
Yes, all 3.13

saratoga:

--- Quote from: Doghouse Riley on July 26, 2016, 01:55:59 PM ---Yes, all 3.13

--- End quote ---

I'm surprised one would work and not the other given that they both use the same underlying hardware.  In either case, 3.13 is several years out of date at this point, so try a newer build and see if the problem has been fixed.

Doghouse Riley:
Removed 3.13 from my Clip+ and installed the latest build showed by the Rockbox utility (06-28-2016).  Left the bootloader in place.

Same problem, shows "ATA error: -4" on startup with the 256 card installed.   Works fine with 64 and 128 cards, and the 256 card works fine on other Sansas.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page