[bookport] Re: Observations

  • From: Robert Carter <r-carter@xxxxxxx>
  • To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:30:38 -0600

Hi All,

It is my understanding that the Book Port will automatically format a card larger than two gigs with fat 32. The smaller cards will still be formatted with fat 16.

Robert Carter

At 12:27 PM 1/31/2006, you wrote:
It's my understanding, correct me if I'm wrong, that you can only format a maximum of 2GIGS under FAT. If you want to format the entire 4GB, you have to format under FAT32. When you format with the BP, you are not given an option.

Bruce

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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Neal Ewers wrote:

Question, if one formats a 4 GB card in the book port, can one decide
between FAT or FAT 32, or if one wants FAT 32, does one have to format
in windows?  I could always stick in my 4 GB card, but it's currently
full of things I need to keep on it for a while.


Neal



-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Toews
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 12:11 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Observations


What Rob and Pamela have both said is that it is a good idea to format.
It's not supposed to be necessary, but it's a good idea. and since it
takes a maximum of maybe twenty seconds to do it with a 4GB card, it
really doesn't hurt to just take the time to do the format.

Bruce



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