HP 50g & SD Cards: Performance, Format, Notes

[Claudio L.]

(07-24-2016 12:05 PM)JDW Wrote:  Formatting (i.e., using only 1 partition) in FAT16 on the Mac is easy and I've already done that. I was speaking about multiple partitions in light of what Matthiaspaul wrote, which seemed to indicate that some sort of special partitioning was required. Perhaps I merely misread what he was saying.

SD cards with multiple partitions will simply need an MBR (Master Boot Record), like any hard disk. I believe the instructions from Sylvain already create an MBR on the Sd card:

Quote:diskutil partitiondisk /dev/disk3 1 MBRFormat "MS-DOS FAT16" "HP50G01" 507M [ENTER]

So all you have to do is use a smaller size on the first partition, then you can add more partitions on the free space.