Charles Muller wrote: > > Win2000 and XP will allow either FAT32 (vfat for Linux) or NTFS, > although if you happened to try to format the drive from one of these > OS's it will try to force you to use NTFS for any sector larger than > 32 GB. But you can you format the drive using a different tool, and > these OSes will accept it afterwards. > > I did recently have a problem, though, with downloading large > Bittorrent files to my FAT32-formatted 120 GB hard drive, which kept > having write errors. But if I downloaded the files to a smaller sector > on my internal drive and then just copied the files to the USB drive > later on for storage, there was no problem. > > Chuck > > > --------------------------- > Charles Muller > > Toyo Gakuen University > Faculty of Humanities > 1660 Hiregasaki, Nagareyama-shi > Chiba 270-0161 JAPAN > Mobile Phone: 090-9310-1787 > > Web Site: Resources for East Asian Language and Thought > http://www.acmuller.net > > <acmuller[at]jj.em-net.ne.jp> > > Thanks for the input. I created a LBA FAT 32 partition using cfdisk and then formated it with mkfs.vfat. Everything seems to be working fine.
I will have access to a Microsoft laptop some time next week, I will test the hdd's compatibility then. On a side note, does anybody have any recommendations on how-to spin down the hdd (as a user) prior to disconnecting it? I realize the hdparm has this ability. .However, hdparm requires root privileges, and it would also require manual input every mount/unmount. Ideas? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
