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Had this knocking around in my bits box since I bought it a while back.

Worked OK no issues, didn't use a level shifter and it hasn't blown up yet, though I did connect it to a 3.3v supply from my Arduino, whether that makes a difference or not I don't know.

The card I used was an old Sandisc Ultra 2 1.0gb card which I used in a digital camera many moons ago (so you can tell how old it was!). Card details are

• Card type: SD2
  Clusters: 246944
  Blocks x Cluster: 8
  Total Blocks: 1975552
  Volume type is: FAT32
  Volume size (Kb): 987776
  Volume size (Mb): 964
  Volume size (Gb): 0.94

Worked with both of the examples supplied, and with the "Cardinfo" sketch from the Arduino IDE examples folder. Also read and displayed text files from my laptop.

Probably worth noting that you are restricted to the old "8.3" format of file labelling (A C or C++ restriction I believe)!

Thanks for a really useful product -

Thanks for the information and feedback. Just one quick comment about not using level shifters, in my tests I've found that the card can randomly corrupt so I wouldn't use a card, or put anything on it I wouldn't want to lose.

andrew wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 24, 2023 12:25 pm

Thanks for the information and feedback. Just one quick comment about not using level shifters, in my tests I've found that the card can randomly corrupt so I wouldn't use a card, or put anything on it I wouldn't want to lose.

Ah, thats whas happening! I've had file corruption a couple of times, fixed by reformatting the card but will need to do something for the onger-term project thanks