[Elecraft] PX3 & thumb drive... SD card works

[Stephen Shearer]

PX3 doesn't "seem" to have a size issue...  aka my 128M vs 16G thumb drive.
As I said I would, I tried an SD card (Class 10 and 16G) with a USB 
interface.
The SD card worked ("M" showed on the screen of the PX3) for both the 
USB2.0 and the USB3.0 interface device.
SO, something is different between the SD card with an USB interface and 
the USB "drive" even if both are FAT32 formatted...
See if "we" get any input from Elecraft as I also CC'd a PX3 developer.

73, steve WB3LGC


On 2/25/2018 10:10 AM, John Evans wrote:
> One thing you might try is use Windows disk management in the 
> administrative tools section of control to partition the large thumb 
> drive with a first fat32 partition that is 2 or 4 GB - if your whole 
> drive is fat32 you should just be able to shrink it down to a size 
> that may work.  If it isn't fat32, delete the partition and create a 
> smaller partition that is.  Then you can create a 2nd or more 
> partitions after that one for NTFS or whatever.
>
> I had an issue where a thumb drive was needed to upgrade firmware in 
> an Agilent digital scope but we didn't have appropriate thumb drives, 
> so I took a 1 TB USB spinning hard drive and partitioned with the 
> first partition being a small fat32 partition with the firmware cab 
> file and it worked great.
>
> If you try this and it works, please let us know.
>
> 72 - john - n0hj
>
> On 2/25/2018 7:19 AM, Stephen Shearer wrote:
>> Yes, not class 10 takes longer...  My thumb drives ARE formatted 
>> FAT32, I checked.  ...
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