Nikolai Filipov wrote:
Hello, all!
I have a SanDisk 128 MB memory stick, which I'm using in a Sony Clie T615C (OS 4.1).
The default cluster size that is in place is 16 KB, which means lots of lost space due to cluster slack.
If I reformat the Memory Stick, for example using a 8 KB or 4 KB cluster size, will that work, or the Clie won't accept a MS formatted in this way?
The file system is FAT16.
Oh, and what will happen (purely hypothetically, I'm not going to try this) if I format it using FAT32?
(I know FAT16 is much faster for such small volume sizes, so there isn't any reason not to use FAT16. I guess larger Flash cards, like 512 MB and 1 GB could benefit from the FAT32 format...)
Nikolai F. Handshigh Tech Support
FAT32: you wont have the right filesystem driver, I guess.
Cluster size: I think FAT16 can only handle a given amount of clusters, so you will have some limit from FAT16 and also the underlying flash memory has a block size. So I think you have to use a cluster size which is a multiply of this block size (e.g. 1x, 2x, 3x etc.)
Regards Henk
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