HP 50g - SD Card format error, another BUG?

[Alvaro]

(03-12-2014 08:13 PM)Steve Simpkin Wrote:  Make sure it is an SD card and not an SDHC card. Also the card needs to formatted in the FAT16 format. You may need to use a utility on your computer to do that although the calculator should have been able to do it. I see some references that FAT32 may also be supported but I can't confirm that.

See the following for more information:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Calculators...yC9jVddAck

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Calculators...yC9kFddAck

http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/...read=98725

I don't know if learning RPL would help with this problem, but it wouldn't hurt

Thank you Steve,

The card is a SD not SDHC (by the way, very difficult to get one now a days).
Yes, the HP 50g recognises the FAT32 but is very slow at Start-up.
Without a card in slot, it starts even quicker.

Seems that "FORMAT" on the HP 50g only works on 1GB cards.

What I am real concerned about is about the bug´s . A machine that has errors, say not working a it should by specification , makes me don´t trust it. From my experience, one bug at one place causes other erros in other places.
So, for it is like "you never know".

About that RPL learning, I will think about that when I am retired, that might be a good exercise, instead of playing Sudoku.

T