Re: [tlug] Ubuntu won't format a 2GB SD card as fat 16

["emiddleton@example.com" <emiddleton@example.com>]

Dave M G wrote:
> Yesterday I bought a 2 Gigabyte SD card, which will basically be used 
> to hold podcasts to listen to on my Palm Pilot.
>
> What I learned from my previous 1 GB SD card (Same brand, Panasonic, 
> and everything) was that I need to format the card from within Ubuntu 
> as a FAT 16 file system, with an MSDOS disk label. That way both 
> Ubuntu and my Palm Pilot will both read and write to it.

Does the Palm Pilot support 2GB cards.  I gather there is a hardware 
difference between 1GB and 2GB SD cards.  I had problems with and early 
model Zaurus's until someone came up with a software workaround that 
seem to mostly work on my card.

Edward