SD-cards

Folks have reported reasonably good success with most SDHC (and SDXC?) cards, though I believe there are a few brands/models out there that have been problematic. Will try keep a list here of brands/models that users have had success/difficulties with:

 

General Advice:

  • Stick to big-brands (SanDisk / Kingston / Verbatim)

  • SDHC is recommended

    • WARNING: some SDXC cards work, others don’t

    • WARNING#2: don’t use plain SD / SDSC card, they don’t work

  • Aim for a minimum of 4GB and a maximum of 32GB

Brand/Model

Experience

User

Brand/Model

Experience

User

Onn 128GB

Not working - Gets stuck in mega65-fdisk somewhere within fdisk_hal_mega65.c - sdcard_readspeed_test()

traymond

Kingston 256GB SDXC

Ok - recognised by MEGA65 as 128GB card, but works (discord)

Goetholon

Team 8GB SDHC (class 4)

Good (discord)

Lydon

SanDisk Extreme 32GB SDHC (v30 I)

Good (discord)

Lydon

SanDisk Extreme 128GB SDXC (v30 I)

Good (discord)

Lydon

PNY 32GB SDHC

Not working -

  • Yaru’s initial post with issue, gets stuck in fdisk on Clearing file system data structures (discord)

Yaru

Kingston 32GB (SDHC?)

Ok - Yaru mentioned that his SD-card would sometimes fail to be detected as SDHC, but he found the problem went away after using a HDMI splitter (discord)

Yaru

EMTEC Elite Gold 32GB (SDHC)

Not working for C64 core .d64 files -

The C64 experienced this 2704 error code while trying to browse for .d64 files on the sd-card:

(discord thread)

Punishermark

 

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