SD Card Format
Can anyone tell me how to format a new SD card. I have sent 4 emails to Prusa with no response. Their customer service sucks.
RE: SD Card Format
It will depend on what desktop OS you are running. Did you provide that information?
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RE: SD Card Format
The ONLY formatter I would use is from the SD Card Association:
RE: SD Card Format
FAT32 on a card up to 16Mb. Using 64Mb cards is not supported - can't remember if 32Mb works or not. All my printing related cards are 16.
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RE: SD Card Format
The reason why 64GB and larger cards don't seem to work is they are supposed to be formateed as ExFAT according the the SD specification. I have yet to see any support for ExFAT in the Arduino world. (Remember, the Einsy board and associated firmware is Arduino compatible...)
That said, you can get 64GB to work. You just have to find a formatter program that will allow you to force FAT32 formatting on a 64GB card. I think the default formatter in Linux will allow this, I know the default formatter in Winblows doesn't allow this.
But, really, for the size of gcode files that our printers use, 64GB+ is way overkill. Until smaller than 64GB cards are unavailable for sale, keep to 32GB and smaller for your printer. (The only caveat that I can think of would be related to maximum file size for FAT32. I forget what it is, but I think it is 2GB. If you have gcode approaching 2GB in size you might have an issue on FAT32.)
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RE: SD Card Format
The SD cards are only 2GB and the Gcodes are not that big.
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You can not format an SD card from the printer interface. You'll need to do that on the desktop / laptop side.
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Can anyone tell me how to format a new SD card. I have sent 4 emails to Prusa with no response. Their customer service sucks.
Dear Mr Englar,
We have answered to all your emails within 48 hours. Please refer to this guide: https://www.wikihow.com/Format-an-SD-Card
If the SD card you have received with your printer only has 2 GB, chances are it is not an Original Prusa printer. We are selling our printers only with 8 GB SD cards.
Martin L.
Official Prusa Research CS
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Thank you for the information.
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It is really not fair to slam Prusa customer support if you did not buy your printer from Prusa.
Every contact I have had with them has been professional, courteous, and effective.