[iyonix-support] Re: Sony Ericsson P990i compatibility

In message <gemini.j4g5ah0309el302vo.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
          "David J. Ruck" <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> In message <gemini.j4g2kb02y5nqf02vo.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>           "David J. Ruck" <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> > Memory cards are in FAT format and DOSFS is limited to 2GB regardless
>> > of the medium,
> 
>> Well if this is so, how come that I have a 6 Gb LaCie CarteOrange (USB2)
>                                                GB
> Small 'b' for bits, Big 'B' for bytes.
> 
>> that I can happily access, read and write to and delete from? Everything
>> is showed in a filer window.
>> 
>> What happens though is that on a WinXP it says it's FAT32 and it's size
>> is 5,57 Gb and it has 1,77 Gb available, but on the Iyonix it's size is
>> 1622MBytes and Free and Used present questionmarks.
> 
> DOSFS has misread it, it thinks its 6GB-4GB, so approx 2GB. It might just
> appear to work while the directory and file data is in the lower part of
> the storage, but before long its going to either hang when it tries to
> access data outside this range, and undoubtedly corrupt the disc when it
> tries to write.
> 
> Try reformatting it on the PC with a 2GB primary partition to share data,
> and the remaining 4GB for PC only. I don't know if this will work though.

Well as I said it is so extremely slow that it is much more 
comfortable to access it through Omni and the 100 Mb (okay ;-) ?) 
ethernet connection between laptop and Iyonix so I had no intention to 
use it this way.

Thanks for the warning about corruption.


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