If you format the card with a computer, it just gives you the empty drive. If you format it with the camera, the format process adds the folder into which the picture files and other stuff are placed. If you put a "blank" card into a camera, it recognizes that the folders are missing and creates them. Nothing "bastard" about that process, I don't think. It likely also recognizes that the card wasn't formatted in a camera, and can't tell if the format was "quick" or "full," and so does a full format to test the entire "disk" (card) to ensure that all sectors are writable and readable.
Fred Holmes At 07:36 PM 9/18/2007, gerald wrote: >although I may format the thing to some microsoft format, olympus has its' own >bastard format, and so if I stick it into the camera, I have to wait while it >is being reformated to olympus and to establish the file folder they use. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
