right.. useing windows XP i just tried copying 333 megs of pics over to the 512 SD card via the card reader.. then copied them back to the hard drive.. all appeared to go well in both operations but just like in 98se any thing over the 256 limit when u attempt to open it comes up with "cant read file header.. unkown format".. so i get exactly the same results in XP and 98se.... there would be two seperate drivers in use here... doing a properties on the reader showed the correct amount of data..333 megs and the file system showed up as "fat" no fat32 or fat16 just fat..

however leaving the card in the reader and rebooting from XP back into 98se then trying to read the card showed mostly garbage.. back to XP still the same mostly garbage.. the card also showed 497 megs of used space as opposed to 333 as it did before.. probably 10% of the pics were still viewable.. I have XP set up as Fat32 by the way so it isnt a case of different file systems doing this..

all very odd but i think the reader genuinely cant cope with anything over 256 megs with an SD card.. i think it buggers up its fat table somehow...

course being as bigger CF cards have been around for longer the reader might well cope with these but i cant put it to the test cos i dont have any CF cards larger than 128 meg..

i aint got around to bunging 300 megs of pics on my two year old leica yet but i will put it to the test shortly.. i will just substitute the reader for the camera and copy the same 333 megs of pics to and fro and see what happens.. i will also format the card in the camera before i do this..

trog100