--- Tom Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
> 

If the size of the disk/card isl > 2GB, and cluster
size is 64K, why not use FAT instead of FAT32 ? It
should be a bit faster, if that small a performance
factor is important anyways ?

- Harman

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