On 1/30/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/30/06, Wayne Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sorry for the typos and the wrong link... (blush) :(
> > Here's the right link for the formatting program that I meant to put in my
> > original post:
> > http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html
> >
> > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:30:03 -0800, Wayne Jr wrote:
> > > Speaking of formatting stick drives, I picked up a couple of
> > > SanDisk 4.0GB Cruzer Minis on ebay for $150 + shipping
> > > (which I thought was an Ok deal since they are listed anywhere from
> > > about $250 to $300+ although I could have picked up a lot of 10 for
> > > $45 each if I wanted to mess around reselling them)... Anyway I
> > > got one for me and one for my wife who runs an apple Powerbook. Her
> > > computer had trouble recognizing it, so she reformatted it to MS-
> > > DOS (w/o asking my advice!)... Now, when you plug it into the
> > > computer it reads 1TB... I know that's not right...
>
> > > Windows-based Format Utility for HP Drive Key or DiskOnKey USB
> > > Device (It's supposed to work with non HP drives)
>
> First thing I notice is that 4GB is beyond the 2GB limit for a single
> partition on a strictly "MSDOS" file system. FAT16, that is.
>
> Don't know what else to say at this moment.
Something else to say: if the Mac is running OS-X it has fdisk.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
Last login: Tue Dec 27 17:55:48 2005
Welcome to Darwin!
[whimbrel:~] carl% which fdisk
/usr/sbin/fdisk
[whimbrel:~] carl%
Reading the man.page, I see that the OS-X fdisk has a bunch of added
features that the average Linux fdisk does not.
carl
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