Hi

I've got a bit of an irritating problem with my trusty 800. I have 2 16GB SDHC cards (intergral) and they keep appearing to dismount, either one of them or both. It seems to be fairly random, but often happens when I travel. One example being leaving work when the 800 has been running Canola quite cheerfully all day. Walk to the car, take the 800 out to plug it in, and the card or cards are no longer visible. A reboot brings them back no bother.

The unit has 2008 (initial offical release from late dec). I have being toying with the idea of reflashing it with the latest version to see if that helps.

I have also been monitoring and searching and have only eve found a couple of posts with similar problems.

Any ideas? anyone else got the problem so I don't feel all alone:-) Have you had it and fixed it?

Thanks

Gaz

Having a similar problem with my reflashed N810. Sometimes it recognises the external card, sometimes it doesn't.

This is compounded by my units inability to recognise a new 8GB microSDHC depite it working perfectly well under windows.

I even tried reformating the card using Panasonic's SD specific formatting software.

I'm not (yet) having this problem with my Sandisk Ultra II SDs, on OS2008 n800. If it helps you might find that you don't have to reboot to get the cards to remount, though.

try "df -k" in an xterm, and the OS should have the cards remounted, provided they have vfat or ext2 filesystems on the first partition. at least, that's been happening for me, when I manually umount 'em.

Been monitoring this, and it seems to have settled down to fairly consistantly be the internal card, and whan I carry the N800 in my pocket, to and from the car usually.

df -k does not remount the card, nor does manually remounting it, or removing and refitting the battery cover. Despite this though, I have a theory that it is possibly a slight amount of movement on either the card or the magnet on the battery cover making the N800 think the card is dismounted.