If I buy an N800 now, will it come with the immediate past version of the OS? That would be okay, because then I could install the SDHC patch and use it with 8gb cards. Then, when the new version of the OS is fixed, I can update. Anything wrong with this plan?

Just another experience report:

I have destroyed one 2GB non-SDHC card in my N800 few months ago. (The firmware was propably the first one to ship with N800 when they just came out.) This card is not recognized with any device I tried. It was in the external slot.

Another 4GB non-SDHC did suffer corruptions many times but was always able to recover by either Windows disk check tool or reformatting. Lately it became so erratic that I quit using that card completely... This card was used both in external and internal slots. I did not see any difference on stability.

Third card I had is the 8GB Patriot SDHC card that worked without problems with 3.... firmware and using the SDHC kernel patch. I had that about 5-6 weeks running. It was in the internal slot.

Once I updated to the latest 4.... firmware the 8GB Patriot card corrupted after about a week use. It was in the internal slot. It happened when I was on road trip using Maemo Mapper. It seemed to happen when the N800 was in "sleep mode" (display was dark) and likely there was simultaneous download of map file from internet (using phone as a DUN modem). Maybe the file system and ethernet have some critcal processes that can cause the file system not to write properly to the card and corrupts it???

Reformatting the 8GB card recovered it, but I put it aside now until a real fix is found for this issue!

One more thing: I was able to corrupt even a 1GB MMC card in external slot once. This was a card I used in 770 before without any issues ever!

It will probably take another few weeks for the new firmware to replace the current firmware that is on shelves.

Onlt that there is no reason to believe Nokia will replace the current SDHC-unfriendly firmware with a quick update... best bet would be to replace the official 4.2007 kernel with the unoficial SDHC kernel once this becomes available.

Just this morning... Uhg... I guess it's a reformat - again - for me. I think it's related to the media player thing that scans the files, but I am not 100% sure of that. I look forward to applying the SDHC patch to the kernel... When is that going to be ready? And - thank you to whomever is doing that!

Very interesting thread (and bug report on bugzilla). I want to replace the internal SD with an 8GB card as soon as possible, but I'll hold back for now.

Since January I have used the original 128MB card in the internal slot, and kept a Kingston 1GB card in the external slot (occasionally replaced with a 1GB MMC Plus card from my camera, and now and then various other 1GB or 512MB cards).

No problems so far, so I'll stick to those cards for the time being.. but I'm feeling the lack of internal SD space more and more, so I hope this gets resolved soon.

Er, and I'm not using Canola or any other scanning software (except for the built-in metacrawler).

I was just going to buy 8GB SDHC card to external slot. I have had 4GB at internal slot and never had problems. Hope it stays that way..

I just posted this message in another thread regarding the exact same thing:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...8&postcount=15

My cards had become corrupted too, and where I really noticed it was using Canola. The songs would be in the listing, but when it tried to play the songs, some of them would give an "Error" message. Plus, the "Rescan" button never seemed to finish on mine...I could be doing something a few hours later, and then the "Canola finished..." window would pop up where the battery meter is. I deleted my 128 swap file and reformatted both cards from within the File Manager, and all is well now. I also deleted Canola.

Do you have Canola installed on your N800? If so, we may have found the culprit for the funky card problems. I am using the same Patriot 8GB SDHC cards as you. I guess I could start using the built-in media player, but the UI really leaves something to be desired.

No Canola here. I do have UKMP and UKTube, which I would hate to lose.

I also didn't install canola on my N800... So I think that couldn't be the problem

It sounds similar to what happened to my 4 gig non-sdhc card when I installed the new firmware.