Sandisk and Axim

[wenv]

Anyone having trouble with sandisk 256mb and the Axim?

[mikekara]

I have the sandisk 128mb SD and I have no problems. Did you format the card beforetrying to use it?

:cry:

[pwalessi]

I'm using a 256 mb sandisk SD card...with no problems at all, after I formatted it. It did some wierd stuff before formatting though.

[Computer Ninja]

Originally posted by wenv@May 11 2003, 01:51 AM
Anyone having trouble with sandisk 256mb and the Axim?

What do you mean by "problems"?

[northjack]

There have been several discussions about problems with the 256 SD card. Some have suggested it is not just SanDisk, but the SD format itself, and capacities larger than 128.

I had several problems with my SanDisk card such: as the Axim not being able to access it, even though it had accessed it before...not being able to write to it because of a message saying it was write-protected (it was not)...

I have switched to a Lexar 256 card, but have not used it long enough to see if it also is problematic.

[Computer Ninja]

I have had no problems with my 256mb SanDisk card except that it is as slow as hades! No corruption, no access problems, nothing!

[Normie33]

I have been having a ton of problems with san disk card - 3 problems especially
1. everytime I install a program - I will lose some other program previously installed.
And this one is my favorite!
2. Sometimes after I install a program the whole disk card gets erased! and when you do a directory you will see hundreds and hundreds of folders named . - yes . (Period) then I have connect to my pc to delete the files and restart from scratch.
3. Turn on the axim and you get "SD card not formatted - would you like to format it now?"
go figure

[wenv]

I have a question for the people that hasn't had problem with sandisk 256mb sd card. How long have you been using the card and have you try installing programs on it and/or move large amount data on to it through MS ActiveSync?

The problem that I have been having is: everytime I install anything programs on it, all my data gets erase.

[wolfman]

I have a sandisk SD 128 MB card I have found that as long as I only install 3 or 4 programs and do not copy many files over to it. The SD card will behave and be pretty much error free. Though if I install more than 6 or 7 programs it will result in the files named ' . ' and deleting those files does nothing but make the Axim say the disk is not formatted and ask if I want to format it.

[beerygaz]

Just got my 256Mb card myself and experienced exactly the same problems when loading it up with apps. Installed 4 or 5 at a time through AS and everything vansihed. Axim asked me to format the card. Was wondering is it was a problem with the SD card, or even with the Axim's SD slot?

Got another PDA at home and a 64Mb card too, so will do some testing. The reason I got the 256Mb card was so that I could load it up with goodies. IF it's going to act up on me like this evertime I try and copy data to it though, I'm going to be very pissed off.