When formatting the 4Gb drive with FAT32, you can significantly improve its (in-camera) performance by formatting with your PC and specifying a larger cluster size (64k) than the default. For some reason, Canon chose to use 16k clusters, meaning 4x the overhead when writing files.
I don't know if this is possible on a MAC, but is easily accomplished with the FORMAT command in a Windows command prompt. Tom P. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Lawrance Lee > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 6:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: EOS FAT vs FAT32 - any difference? > > Howdy group, > > I recently bought a 4GB microdrive for my EOS 10D. > > When I did a chkdsk (from Windows 2000) onto the drive, it says FAT32. > I then did a chkdsk on my 1GB compact flash card and it is > just plain FAT. > > What's the difference, if any between the two different FAT formats? > Should I format my 1GB compact flash card to FAT32? > > Thanks in advance, > > Lawrance Lee * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
