Sd cards are unbelievably tricky. You can get really good high-capacity sd cards on Aliexpress. They now deliver within 7 to 10 days. They come formatted with exfat and work perfectly in devices. It's when things go wrong, you are screwed.
An sd card actually has many times the capacity that is stated. All the extra is used for 'wear levelling'. That means it is nothing like conventional media.
So, I had the perfect card for my cheap Chinese camera, that I am taking on my trip. As long as you are in sunlight, the camera is amazing. No need to take out the phone, and screw up all the buttons, and then you need your reading glasses. The camera is point and shoot and only $25.
Life was perfect until I decided to use the camera's 'format' command. Right to fat32! That's only 4 gb, on a 128 card.
Nothing in Linux worked to fix this card. After looking around, I found Sd Formatter, from the sd card association. You have to do a full 'overwrite' format to fix the card. It takes hours to run, so I'm still running it. Take off all screen saver and power management stuff. I'll do a ps if it all works, but I am extremely hopeful. These guys should know.
ps I'm all wrong. The camera format uses a program to allow the full capacity of the sd card, in fat32. Neat.
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I had a mare with 64GB thumb drives the other week. Stuck them in a win 10 machine and they got blasted back to 5MB, so I had to stick them in a Win 11 box and format them back to 64GB exfat and then the win 10 box left them alone after that. Then I nuked the win boxes and installed Mint. 😁
ha, Linux rules. But fat32 is weird.
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