SD card support

[daleph]

As the 'instructions' and the online help are no real use, i am throwing this out there....

It states that she Shield supports up to 256gb mSD cards, I have a 64gb Samsung XC card, the shield seems to know it is there as the 'Mount SD Card' option is not greyed out, but it wont mount or format the card

I have formatted the card NTFS as suggested in the online manual

The card works fine in a Galaxy S4

My 32gb card works fine, but is too small.

Any ideas?

Dale

 

[aDigitalPhantom]

I have never gotten the shield to format a sdcard. You will need to download a third party tool to format it fat32, as windows won't let for format any partition over 32gb fat 32.
Depending on the format options fat32 can support up to 1 or 2 terabytes

 

[daleph]

I have never gotten the shield to format a sdcard. You will need to download a third party tool to format it fat32, as windows won't let for format any partition over 32gb fat 32.
Depending on the format options fat32 can support up to 1 or 2 terabytes

Not according the Nvidia's own instructions, they clearly say to format it to NTFS

shield.nvidia.com/user-guide/sd-card

I want to know if anyone has a 64gb or greater card working in the Shield.

 

[aDigitalPhantom]

Not according the Nvidia's own instructions, they clearly say to format it to NTFS

shield.nvidia.com/user-guide/sd-card

I want to know if anyone has a 64gb or greater card working in the Shield.

post about ntfs on geforce forums

Currently FAT32 is read/write and NTFS read only. I believe we will make NTFS read/write through an update.

and post 2

Yes, we are working on adding exFAT support to SHIELD and also support NTFS read/write (not just read) through a future update.

but wait there's more

FAT32 will see 64GB, I just formatted mine as FAT32 and my shield recognizes the full size.

If on Windows, you need to format it using this:
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

Windows will only format FAT32 up to 32GB using the built-in utility, even though FAT32 supports up to 2TB.

 

[daleph]

Thanks for the links, i have never visited the geforce forum, the link i posted is from the actual instructions included in the online help built into the device.

If the card needs to be formatted as anything other than NTFS then they need to update the instructions, as i assume thats where most users would look first..

 

[aDigitalPhantom]

true, but I never read the instructions, I did not think it included any....LOL.

 

[daleph]

true, but I never read the instructions, I did not think it included any....LOL.

LOL, there is an app installed called SHIELD help, well there is on mine.

I have nothing to compare against as its not available over here in the UK

Tried Fat32 and it still doesnt like it

Will try again tomorrow as its getting a tad late now

BTW, what do you think of it?

I think its a cracking hand held emulator and the build quality is superb!

 

[aDigitalPhantom]

LOL, there is an app installed called SHIELD help, well there is on mine.

I have nothing to compare against as its not available over here in the UK

Tried Fat32 and it still doesnt like it

Will try again tomorrow as its getting a tad late now

BTW, what do you think of it?

I think its a cracking hand held emulator and the build quality is superb!

I argee, and I have had trouble getting my 16gb sdcard to work in it, but my 8gb works fine.

16gb is a sandisk sdhc class 4

 

[daleph]

The odd thing is, the shield does something to the card, if i put it back into the Galaxy S4 after removing it from the shield, the S4 says its damaged and needs to be reformatted. It then reformats it and mounts it ok.

Really need more than 32gb in the shield....

 

[aDigitalPhantom]

I got my 16gb microsd working. I noticed that my 8gb has a gpt partition structure and the 16gb had a mbr structure, after converting the mbr to gpt on the 16gb it works.

 

[shinratdr]

I popped in my 16GB MicroSD that I use for my SuperCard DSTWO and it read it without issue. I copied some ROMs from it and to it, worked perfectly.

 

[aDigitalPhantom]

I have now converted my 8b working sdcard from gpt to mbr and it stopped working so i will change it back to gpt.

 

[s0me guy]

Posted in other threads about this stuff. What ive experienced.

SanDisk 64gb Ultra*microSDXC™ UHS-I fails to mount in any format other than NTFS. Trying to mount otherwise results in loss of data and formating. Under NTFS format that file path is something ridiculous than can't be seen by some apps rendering the card basically useless. The card works fine in all other devices in several types of formating.

I have a 16gb of same brand and speed rating that mounts fine under FAT32.

 

[aDigitalPhantom]

Posted in other threads about this stuff. What ive experienced.

SanDisk 64gb Ultra*microSDXC™ UHS-I fails to mount in any format other than NTFS. Trying to mount otherwise results in loss of data and formating. Under NTFS format that file path is something ridiculous than can't be seen by some apps rendering the card basically useless. The card works fine in all other devices in several types of formating.

I have a 16gb of same brand and speed rating that mounts fine under FAT32.

Let me reference you to a post earlier in this thread post

 

[s0me guy]

Let me reference you to a post earlier in this thread post

Is anyone having issues ( with the save path etc...) when using 64gb formated as FAT32?

 

[aDigitalPhantom]

Another post in that thread on the GeForce forums is that it does not support unicode file names.
The main difference I know of is that FAT32 does not support single files over 4Gig in size, NTFS does.

 

[s0me guy]

Gotcha.

Sorry. Dealing with a newborn over here. Not much time to play with shield right now let alone research it. Lol

 

[SixSixSevenSeven]

Another post in that thread on the GeForce forums is that it does not support unicode file names.
The main difference I know of is that FAT32 does not support single files over 4Gig in size, NTFS does.

NTFS is also a journaling filesystem and has a few more inbuilt security features (which I see as pointless for the filesystem itself). Journaling won't actually do any good for the longevity of the SD card, its extra read/write cycles which are already limited enough on an SD card.

 

[eman2001]

LOL, there is an app installed called SHIELD help, well there is on mine.

I have nothing to compare against as its not available over here in the UK

Tried Fat32 and it still doesnt like it

Will try again tomorrow as its getting a tad late now

BTW, what do you think of it?

I think its a cracking hand held emulator and the build quality is superb!

I got the class 10 xc micro sd card formatted to fat 32 and works fine in my shield here in the UK :good:

 

[aDigitalPhantom]

I looked up up what the names that I mentioned earlier.
GPT was referring to GUID Partition Table.
MBR was referring to Master Boot Record.

I can't get anything using a Master Boot Record to mount in the shield.
Thing using the GUID Partition Table Work fine for me so far.