So, I saw this comment on the setup page with interest for cards greater than 4GB...
Select and resize the first partition to 4 MB if you only intend to mainly use the CHDK partition. On the other hand, if you have a large card, like 16 GB, you can make this first partition any size up to 4GB, and allocate the rest (12GB) to the second (CHDK) partition. So, in case you don't want to load CHDK at all, you can run from the first partition (put the switch on the card in the UNLOCKED position), and still have a 4GB card. Or, you can run CHDK (put the switch on the card in the LOCKED position), and have a 12 GB card. Just remember that 4GB is the maximum size for the first partition, as eventually it will be converted to a FAT 16 format. Format this first partition as MS-DOS.And I thought fantastic!!! So I patiently setup my 32GB SD card as 4GB, and 28GB (roughly), and followed the painful instructions for doing this on a mac... Got done, and thought "yes" lets try it. Well I was surprised to see that when the card is in CHDK, it writes to the small 4GB area. When it is not in CHDK, and running normally (card unlocked) it still writes to the small 4GB area. So the statement above that says CHDK will detect the larger area and use it, isn't correct.
I really liked the idea of dual use of the card. Did I do something wrong in the setup? Or was this expected. I really wanted to use CHDK for time-lapse, and that would mean 28GB would be where to store the files, not in the small 4GB bootable area.
I am using a Canon S100 with the 102a firmware. Did I misinterpret how the two partitions would be used?
Thanks
Colin.
