Re: Semi-OT: Battery Question

2010-11-23 Thread steve harley
On 2010-11-23 20:13 , Adam Maas wrote: As can Linux. Good reason to have a non-Windows OS handy. That said, there's little reason not to use NTFS these days (Linux handles it fine, I suspect OS X can as well if you have a recent version). stock Mac OS X can read but not write to NTFS; there are

Re: Semi-OT: Battery Question

2010-11-23 Thread Adam Maas
As can Linux. Good reason to have a non-Windows OS handy. That said, there's little reason not to use NTFS these days (Linux handles it fine, I suspect OS X can as well if you have a recent version). FAT32 is VERY inefficient with larger disks, which is one reason why MS is trying to force it out o

Re: Semi-OT: Battery Question

2010-11-23 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Mac OS X can format volumes in FAT32 up to the file system maximum limits. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:36 PM, John Francis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:10:23PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: >> From: steve harley >> >> It's a 500GB drive. I don't think Windoze can cope with that in FAT-32. > > T

Re: Semi-OT: Battery Question

2010-11-23 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:10:23PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: > From: steve harley > > It's a 500GB drive. I don't think Windoze can cope with that in FAT-32. The Format utility supplied by Microsoft is artificially limited to a maximum volume size of 32GB. But if you get the disk formatted som

Re: Semi-OT: Battery Question

2010-11-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: steve harley On 2010-11-12 11:44 , John Sessoms wrote: > I don't know if there will be any other windoze computers along on the > trip. I could format my external drive for Mac HFS or HFS+ and install > MacDrive on my windoze box when I get home. just noticed this; format the external a

Re: Semi-OT: Battery Question

2010-11-18 Thread steve harley
On 2010-11-12 11:44 , John Sessoms wrote: I don't know if there will be any other windoze computers along on the trip. I could format my external drive for Mac HFS or HFS+ and install MacDrive on my windoze box when I get home. just noticed this; format the external as FAT-32 -- any Mac can rea

Re: Semi-OT: Battery Question

2010-11-12 Thread Stan Halpin
> > What have I forgotten or overlooked? Credit card and spare suitcase for the lenses you'll buy in Hong Kong? Sounds like a great opportunity! Enjoy. stan On Nov 12, 2010, at 1:44 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > I should be good for batteries. I have 4 D-LI50s & 1 NP400. I know my > chargers wil

Re: Semi-OT: Battery Question

2010-11-12 Thread John Sessoms
I should be good for batteries. I have 4 D-LI50s & 1 NP400. I know my chargers will work with the voltages I'll encounter on the trip, and I already have the necessary UK plug adapters for Hong Kong. I'm thinking of "sharing" from the point of "What do I contribute to the common pool?" Every

Re: Semi-OT: Battery Question

2010-11-12 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I used NP400s interchangeably with the Pentax K10D battery too. No problems, although the Pentax battery has a little more capacity. The Canon batteries I've seen, while similar in form factor, are not compatible with the NP400 terminal layout. BTW, no name D-LI50 batteries for Pentax K10D, K20D a

Semi-OT: Battery Question

2010-11-12 Thread John Sessoms
K10 & K20 both use the D-LI-50 battery, which appears to be essentially a re-badged Konica-Minolta NP400 (if using the NP400 in my K10 hasn't killed it by now, it never will ...). I'm going on a school trip to China and we're trying to figure out what we can share. Since I'm the only Pentax sh