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Title: CF card sector size Post by: squirrel on April 11, 2012, 05:11:34 AM Does anyone know the correct sector size for a 1GB CF card for WMS games? Also how many KB should the file be? Driving me crazy recently. Thanks in advance
Title: Re: CF card sector size Post by: jdkmunch on May 03, 2012, 09:11:59 PM I have to look it up for you - but you may be able to find it out through google quicker - the standard WMS BB1 game uses a Sandisk 256Mb card. Each CF manufacture has a different number of sectors and sector size known as a drive geometry. If you purchase a sandisk cf card from eBay or someplace else it must be genuine. China fakes have a different geometry.
When the BB boots up the OS checks each CF card to make sure they are "genuine" through the geometry. I have successfully changed the geometry in Linux, (haven't found a winblows equivalent), of these china fakes to make the BB boot - HOWEVER - the read/write time of these fakes are much slower from the real thing. Although I was able to get the game to boot and play - it made the machine crash frequently. my advice - DON'T DO IT. Title: Re: CF card sector size Post by: jdkmunch on May 05, 2012, 10:52:04 PM The correct geometry for a 256 cf card is 995/8/63 [501760 sectors]
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