On Monday 02 December 2019 06:35:33 Mark Allums wrote: > On 12/2/19 4:57 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, December 02, 2019 05:11:41 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Monday 02 December 2019 04:40:28 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >>> Try a different (known good) reader and/or system. > >> > >> I'll look for one that claims exfat support. But I'm out in the > >> puckerbrush so if staples or wally's doesn't carry it, I'm S.O.L. > > > > Well, we all have ebay (with some short delivery times, but also > > some long from the far east), Newegg, TigerDirect, and (for me, as a > > last resort) Amazon. (Well, plus some specialty electronic > > component houses -- I think James is gone, but there are others.) > > > > With the weather today (at least in eastern Pa.), and your need to > > stay close to your wife, paying for overnight delivery might be a > > reasonable thing to do. (I ususally order from the far east and > > wait, unless it is an emergency.) > > > > And we don't have Radio Shack or Circuit City any more -- there is a > > Best Buy that used to carry some computer components -- not sure > > that they still do. > > exfat support is not necessary in the card reader. All readers > support exfat if they support the size of sd/microsd card that comes > preformatted to exfat. You need filesystem support in your OS of > choice. That is all. > > Mark > > PS: Some OSes don't support very large capacity SD cards. Win 10 > wouldn't read a 512 GB microsd card of mine.
64GB is as big as I go in u-sd's. And I think thats as big as the pi's go. Bigger SSD's aren't a problem though, I'm using a 240GB as workspace on a pi4. But all this is waiting to get a new machine built. this one is using swap just to boot and run kmail from a TDE install. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
