[iyonix-support] Re: USB Flash Drive directory file limit

  • From: John Williams <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:15:34 +0100

In article <4ae4292c4f.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin Wuerthner
<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > But you could do that as it was originally formatted (ROFS reports mine
> > as FAT16 - formatted under W98).

> True, but it should certainly work with RISC OS format, too.

> > Are you absoluteley sure there isn't a 'hidden' partition?

> This is a red herring. What difference would it make if there was? RISC
> OS shows 123MB of free space on that device, so it sees some partition
> and that partition causes problems, so there is no need to care about
> any others.

> My guess is that the device was formatted with the wrong parameters. It
> looks a bit like it was formatted to "Old" map format.

But my advice - re-format it on a PC running older software - may still
solve the problem!

John

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