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p.1 #1 · 1D & 8gb cards?

I'm sure this has been talked about before but I couldn't find anything. I just got an 8gb Ridata lightning series card, works great in my 20d but I get a Card Error in my 1D. The 1D has the latest firmware on it (1.4.0) so is there anything I can do or is just not gonna take an 8gb card? won't kill me if it doesn't....not like I need 1600 photos worth on one card.

Thanks for any input,

carl

Aug 14, 2008 at 04:01 AM

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p.1 #2 · 1D & 8gb cards?

The 1D Mark I has a file system limitation that only lets it use 2-gig or smaller cards.

Aug 14, 2008 at 04:04 AM

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p.1 #3 · 1D & 8gb cards?

cool, thanks for the info Dan.

carl

Aug 14, 2008 at 04:09 AM

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p.1 #4 · 1D & 8gb cards?

He's partially correct. You can use at least 4gb cards in the 1d mkI. I haven't personally tried bigger cards, so I can't say. FAT16 supports up to a 4gb partition. The mkI won't let you create a partition that big in camera though.

I use a little formatting tool called "hp usb disk storage format tool" - you can search for that phrase and choose whichever site you want to download from. I format my 4gb cards on my computer and use 'em in my mkI. If I forget and format them in camera, no prob they still work, but I only get 2gb.

Aug 18, 2008 at 08:12 AM

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p.1 #5 · 1D & 8gb cards?

I use an 8gb Ridata card in my 1D. Works fine when formatted in-camera, but the camera will treat it like a 2gb card.

There's suggestions floating around about formatting the card in the computer using large clusters or something to give you more space, but I have yet to accomplish this successfully.

There's also some issues with getting the card back to 8gb after formatting it in-camera at 2gb. Sometimes it has a tendency to stay at 2gb and even a reformat in the computer just reformats it to an empty 2gb.

It is possible to get it back to 8gb with some fenagling (that word looks weird typed out), but I forget exactly how to do it. It's not too difficult.

Aug 18, 2008 at 08:21 AM

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p.1 #6 · 1D & 8gb cards?

Funny how some words we use every day just look wrong when typed out.

Thank you both, I'll just stick with using my old 2gb cards in the 1D and use the 8gbs in the 20D and soon to be 5D.

Carl

Aug 18, 2008 at 02:17 PM

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p.1 #7 · 1D & 8gb cards?

using a PC to format, FAT16, 256k as the cluster size.

type "format /?" at dos prompt to see the options.

Aug 18, 2008 at 08:03 PM

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p.1 #8 · 1D & 8gb cards?

So following those directions, jxsq, I typed in: format e: /fs:fat /a:256k

The error was that the cluster size is too big for FAT.

Aug 18, 2008 at 09:01 PM

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p.1 #9 · 1D & 8gb cards?

Ariel Bravy wrote:
So following those directions, jxsq, I typed in: format e: /fs:fat /a:256k

The error was that the cluster size is too big for FAT.

I am using a 4GB card for my 1D, and i believe i was using 128K when i format it last time. Not sure why it doesn't like 256k.

Aug 20, 2008 at 05:38 PM

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p.1 #10 · 1D & 8gb cards?

or you can format the 8 GB card on a camera that supports it like the 1D Mark II N and VIOLA!!! it works! no more 2 GB!!!

Aug 20, 2008 at 06:10 PM

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p.1 #11 · 1D & 8gb cards?

Ariel,

I also tried the format e: /fs:fat /a:64k /x with a 4GB card, same error as you.

I then created a 4GB fat32 partition, either on a computer or by formatting in a newer model camera then did:-

format e: /q /fs:fat

This then worked! I have a 4GB for my 1D.

e: is just the drive letter of the CF card reader in my pc, make sure you change it to whatever it is in your pc. Formatting the wrong drive can be a little upsetting, especially if it is one of your hard drives.

Edited on Aug 20, 2008 at 10:33 PM

Aug 20, 2008 at 10:33 PM

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p.1 #12 · 1D & 8gb cards?

Andrew, excellent! Glad to hear it works.

Does anyone know how to create a 4gb partition on an 8gb flash drive? I tried going through Windows XP's disk management, but it doesn't allow me to delete the partition, only format it.

Partition Magic doesn't recognize the flash card as a drive, only hard drives.

Edited on Aug 20, 2008 at 10:51 PM

Aug 20, 2008 at 10:50 PM

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p.1 #13 · 1D & 8gb cards?

You guys rock!

Just did it with my 4GB card using the "format e: /q /fs:fat" method, only thing is it would only allow me to use the 64K cluster saying the 128k was to big(?).

Aug 20, 2008 at 11:17 PM

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p.1 #14 · 1D & 8gb cards?

I'm glad this didn't turn out to be a stupid question, even though I'm only gonna use the 2gb cards in mine.

carl

Aug 20, 2008 at 11:56 PM


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