XO: SDHCI: Card didn't power up after 1 second

[Jon Stanley]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Brian Powell <bpowell01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe this is an issue with the cards themselves, I haven't yet
> proved that theory but inode0 and myself are both getting the exact
> same problems with the 8gig cards we just bought, but I have no
> problem at all with my 4 gig card and if I recall you are trying to
> use a 16gig card.

Trying to use both a 4 and 16gig card gives identical results, which
are quite interesting:

initial boot fails, with $SUBJECT error
dir sd: works
try dir sd: again, fails with $SUBJECT
try again, it works
try again, fail.

Exactly every other time, it doesn't work.  Oddness.