G35 CompacFlash Card - Size Limit?

[ImpliedConsent]

I haven't found anything in the UG referring to the max size of the CF player, but here's the deal. My wife slowly fills up a 16GB CF card, but she can't see a lot of the files. I've checked the troubleshooting guide, and we're good (they're all 128bit .mp3's). They're not copyright protected files, just ripped .mp3's from our bought CD's ... which is the intent of this system (that was my disclaimer that all my .mp3's are legal).

I did a search on this on the forum, didn't find any. Thoughts?

[ImpliedConsent]

...different keyword searches found: zerothread/322340

...essentially, if it's the same system as the '08 QX56 (I'm sure it is), then the CompactFlash limit is 2GB. Good thing I only paid $70. for the 16GB. Weird, 2GB is the limit for MS-DOS. That seems unusual if the system came with a 9GB hard-drive for the same thing.

There is a reference in the UG, not to disk size, but to Max files, which is 512. A quick check of math (avg 4MB per .mp3) = 2048MB. Makes no sense for such a sophisticated system to limit to such a small size.
Modified by ImpliedConsent at 11:32 AM 3/21/2008

[Sentientbydesign]

I would venture to say it has to do with the type of code they used to program the system.

The syntax probably can't address more than 2^9=512 for some reason.

It's also possible that when they developed the system, CF cards larger than 2GB weren't yet in use.