A while ago I bought the new Raspberry Pi and to play around with a little Orange Pi from Aliexpress. The first problem I encountered was to format the SD-Card, so that the Orange Pi would accept the ISO. It has to be formatted in FAT32, same issue when you wan't to use SD-Cards with the Raspberry Pi or with an Arduino and the SD-Library.
When you've bought an SD-Card, with for example 64GB in size, the standard is that this card is not formatted in FAT32. All cards with a capacity >= 32GB are formatted in exFAT.
First thing I've done is I just formatted the SD-Card with the Mac OS X Diskutil GUI. And this does not work. I don't know why, I haven't looked much further into it. And don't download the official SD-Card formatter tool for your Mac. This tool will format a SD-Card just like the factory defaults. In my case: exFAT.
MAC OS X
On Mac OS X you can use the builtin diskutil:
diskutil list
to list all your devices currently attached to your Mac. It will look something like this:
/dev/disk6 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *62.8 GB disk6
1: DOS_FAT_32 ESP32 62.8 GB disk6s1
This is my already formatted 64GB SD-Card. I've previously used it with an ESP32.
To format the SD-Card just type:
sudo diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 YOURNAME MBRFormat /dev/diskX
Be sure to change the /dev/diskX
to your device id. diskutil
will give you something like this:
Started erase on disk6
Unmounting disk
Creating the partition map
Waiting for partitions to activate
Formatting disk6s1 as MS-DOS (FAT32) with name ORANGE
512 bytes per physical sector
/dev/rdisk6s1: 122702528 sectors in 1917227 FAT32 clusters (32768 bytes/cluster)
bps=512 spc=64 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=32 hds=255 hid=2 drv=0x80 bsec=122732542 bspf=14979 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=6
Mounting disk
Finished erase on disk6
Linux
First check with lsblk
what label your disk is associated with.
You can also double check this with dmesg
. Also there should appear something like USB Mass Storage device detected
followed (some lines later) with: [sdb] ...
I just use gparted
. Create a new Partition. Use FAT32 as the File system. Apply everything with the green checkmark.
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