All- Thank you for the info. I do have the SDHC kernel going, and I did format using my PC in the end. This doesn't make sense to me though. I was able to make the partition fat32 - so is it that mkfs.vfat only formats at fat16? Also - is my linux box formated to > 2 GB slices because it's ext 2 or 3 (I guess I could just look....)? Can linux of any variety format fat32 > 2 GB?

cheers