With the price of larger capacity CF cards going down, using higher capacity cards (>2Gb) with the DT800 is desirable for my application.

Does dataTaker have plans to increase the memory capacity that is compatible with the DT800? Is there anyway to get around the firmware limitation?

Thanks,
aerosue

When I try to insert the 8Gb card for formatting (knowing prior 2GB format restriction), the DataTaker repeatedly resets the firmware. Any known issues with RiData CF cards? (I don't think I saw them mentioned in the technical note).

Here is the error message and the error log:
Warning: abnormal firmware reset - type UERRLOG for details dataTaker 800 Version 4.10 Initializing...Done.

2006/08/09,16:48:00 Exception 200 at 0x000abe58 SRR1=00009032 DSISR=00005985 DAR=0012058c BAR=ffffffff MSTAT=00000080 LR=000abdc8 CR=80000800 CTR=000d3004 XER=00000000 R00:07 000abdc8 041fdcf0 0012d538 0012058c 10000400 0012058a 00000001 00000000 R08:15 0000007a 00000000 00000008 00000001 00000000 040606a0 53535353 53535353 R16:23 53535353 00000000 00000000 040fc870 00000400 04120990 00000001 00000001 R24:31 00000001 00000000 00000001 00000001 00000000 00000060 04125c50 00000100 Call stack: 000accd8 000acc08 000ac6e4 000ac4f0

aerosue
08/10/2006 06:58:53

Good afternoon aerosue,

There is no way of getting around the size limitation of the operating system. The DT800 uses FAT16 which sets the maximum size limit.

We have no experience with your particular memory card.
I have been testing SanDisk ultra II 4 GB card but have not been able to replicate your system crash. I have passed the information to Engineering and they are looking at it.

Have you tried formatting the disk as FAT16?

Cheers,
Roger

Thanks for the reply, Roger. Each time I tried a FAT16 formatting session, the format session would not complete. I was only able to format the card as FAT32.

Long story short - I sent them back.

Regards,
aerosue