Kevin, Does this mean the camera can write to this FAT16 card of 4GB, but the OS of the PC can not read beyond 2GB? No, probably it can't read it at all as the cluster sizes are too big. Then why use >2GB flash cards? I am confused.
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:59, Kevin Waterson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Frits W�thrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does this mean I can format my 512MB CF card with FAT32? If the *ist D > > formats it, it is FAT, I assume that is FAT16. Can the *ist D format a > > 4GB card? > > It may format the drive as FAT16, depending on the operating system. > The word from our friends at Micro soft is basically this: > FAT16 volumes larger than 2 GB are not accessible from computers running > MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, and many other operating systems. > This limitation occurs because these operating systems do not support cluster > sizes larger than 32 KB, which results in the 2 GB limit. > > Kind regards > Kevin -- Frits W�thrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
