[bookport] Re: Should this be taking this long?
- From: Aaron Cannon <cannona@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:41:52 -0600
It might defrag, but you are right, there is no point. If I understand the
technology correctly, reading from one point on the card is just as fast as
reading from any other, no matter where you were reading from
previously. This is not true of a hard drive, where a physical component
has to actually move from one point to another when you start reading from
a different point on the media, so naturally defragging a hard drive makes
sense because you want related blocks to be as close as possible so you
don't have to jump around as much.
Aaron Cannon
At 09:08 AM 3/24/2005, you wrote:
>I'm not sure a CF card will ever defrag or if there is really a reason to
>do this. Formatting should be sufficient and that with formatting from the
>BookPort.
>
>
>
>At 08:47 AM 3/24/2005 -0600, you wrote:
> >Walt, I'm not sure what kind of OS you are running, but I have a
> >question. Can you defrag a FAT CF card in Windows XP, or does it just
> >do FAT 32 and NTFS? Thanks.
> >Neal
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walt Smith
> >Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:36 AM
> >To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [bookport] Should this be taking this long?
> >
> >
> >I put a 1 GB CF card into my reader/burner, opened the MS-DOS prompt
> >window, and issued Defrag e: /v and while I did get the initial
> >verbose information, there's no indication in the MS-DOS prompt window
> >that anything is taking place. It's been at least 20 minutes. Should a
> >1 GB card take this long to be defragmented? The fragmentation
> >percentage was high--34%.
> >
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