itm

JVC sales have advised me that their units only accept SD cards up to 1Gb in capacity. Has anyone had successfully tried a 2Gb SD card in a headunit that'll hook up to the S2K's in-dash controls?

Shiskine

My Blaupunkt Woodstock DAB54 takes 1GB SD cards without any problem, despite the manual only referring to 256Mb cards (which were all that were available when it was published).

Don't own any 2GB cards so never tried them, but on the basis it takes 1GB jobs, I would think you'd be okay.

Good head unit, plus you get DAB too ...

(See the link in my sig for dash interfaces for a variety of head units)

AquilaEagle

I dont see why it wouldnt read higher than 1gb?? Might just need some firmware or something

itm

No I can't see why it wouldn't. The FAT format should support 2Gb. I just wanted to hear from someone who'd actually done it before I splash out on a new unit

Shiskine

Good point on the file system though, as I've just remembered my Blaupunkt would only support FAT16 (not FAT32).

Check the format of your card ...

alex.stanley

I can't remember what the limit of FAT16 is?

mec

I don't think the limit is down to FAT16, older windows OSes was about 2gb, NT was about 4GB, not that its got an os in it. I think it has something to do with addressing or the registers of the headunit.

God i'm dull

alex.stanley

Yes, but I asked the question heh

itm

Maybe the simplest thing would be to find a dealer that has one on demo and stick the SD card in the slot to see what happens. Does anyone know a dealer not too far from Richmond (or Fleet, Hampshire) who has extensive demo facilities??

s2konroids

FAT16 is limited to 2gb and below, FAT32 is limited to 4gb, NTFS there is no limit