I was in the middle of a print when I got an SD Card error that halted my print. It complained about a write error and said the print had to be cancelled and either the card reformatted or a new card entered. I tried to reformat but it wouldn’t allow it. The only SD Card I had was a 512G card and when I formatted it from the A1 display, it said it only had 119G available. Does the A1 have a limit to the size of the SD Card used? If so, assuming that must be 128G. It does seem like my 512G card is working but with just less storage. Should it be Ok to use this until I can get another 128G card? Not sure why I got this error, is it just the cheap SD card that came with my A1? With a higher quality card should you see this error? What types of SD Cards are most people using?
The SD cards that come with the printers are destined to fail, they’re not great. Samsung or SanDisk “high endurance” cards are the best ones for this purpose.
The A1 can hold up to a 2TB SD card. Make sure that all the partitions sure erased and then have the A1 format it. It sounds like there’s a smaller partition on the card that it might be using
When I format mine on windows, I just create a small partition and reformat it on the printer which expands it to the card capacity. It’s possible having extra partitions blocks this, but if you have only 1 small partition and the rest unallocated formatting on the printer definitely expands it to the full card.
Yeah my thought was that it was possibly used for say a raspberry pi or something that created multiple partitions. If you just format the card from Explorer in Windows it will just format that one partition, you’d have to go into disk management or DISKPART and remove the remaining partitions and then extend the one you formatted (or as you said the printer will do the extending part if it formats the card)
Yup, I just use diskpart. I’ve only destroyed the wrong device once. Now I do a “detail disk” first to check I’m on the right device.
c:\ diskpart
DISKPART> list disk
DISKPART> select disk n
DISKPART> detail disk
DISKPART> clean
DISKPART> create partition primary size=3000
DISKPART> select partition 1
DISKPART> format fs=fat32 quick
DISKPART> remove all dismount
DISKPART> exit
Diskpart is a wonderful (and can be self inflicting pain) tool. I use it and GParted for various disk related chores. Never used either for SSD but will file that away for future ref. Thanks
Edit: mis-directed synaptic collapse (brain function, not Italian Prog band) meant SD card not SSD