05-18-2017, 10:31 AM | #16 |
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I've seen this repeatedly in various models of Kobo, but most often on my Kobo Aura (6-inch, pre-2017), regardless of brand (I mostly use Sandisk) and capacity; always formatted properly as FAT32 . I suspect one of the reasons Kobo has dropped Micro SD slots on their recent devices -- a big step backward in my view -- is that they never managed to get the engineering bugs out of their implementation, and threw up their hands in despair.
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05-19-2017, 04:01 AM | #17 | |
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05-19-2017, 06:36 AM | #18 | |
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I believe there are water-proof cameras with higher ratings and sd card slots, so it should be doable. |
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05-19-2017, 07:15 AM | #19 |
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It's doable. Look at the original H2O. But, the original H2O has a cover for the ports that some find annoying.
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05-19-2017, 07:22 AM | #20 |
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And it also has a different "waterproof" rating. For me, I would want an SD card slot and a reasonable water resistant rating (survives a quick drop in the toilet bowl: just long enough to get my grabber so I don't need to use my hand. )
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05-19-2017, 07:59 AM | #21 | |
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My WebPortal mod has a ServiceMenu applet that lets you check the internal and sd card for read errors, I think KSM had something similar? With it you could check whether the card is recognized at all (even if unformatted) Kobo only supports ext2/3/4 filesystems (but not on the SD cards, unless you mod it - I posted a hack for that here, not sure if it still works) and FAT16/FAT32. So anything else like ntfs/exfat/etc. won't work. Kobo expects the SD card to have a single partition (number 1) with FAT32 filesystem. Last edited by frostschutz; 05-19-2017 at 08:37 AM. |
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05-21-2017, 03:46 AM | #22 |
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Does the new 4.4.9349 firmware, which fixes "External cards without a label were not being mounted." fix this problem?
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