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From: james on 8 Apr 2008 10:32 Richard James <rjames(a)invalid.com> wrote in news:47fb2d2e$0$26468$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au: > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:45:21 +0000, james wrote: > >> notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote in >> news:G1iKj.1191$Ul.904(a)fe097.usenetserver.com: >> >>> I copy a firefox bookmarks.html file to a 4G vfat flash drive and >> [snip] >> >> Isn't there a 2Gig limit on the original flash specification? ISTR >> that drives over 2Gig in size take some special >> driver/hardware/thingy. Perhaps you're running into that? > > There are two VFAT limits: VFAT cannot store a file over (4GB - 1Byte) > in size. Windows Partitioning tools cannot create a VFAT partition > over 32GB during initial installation. > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463/EN-US/ > > I personally have a portable hard drive 320GB with a 94.9GB VFAT > partition. But I know that I cannot put certain DVD images onto that > partition. > > There also is the SD card limitation that Henrik talks about. > > Richard James I think that Henrik corrected my faulty memory, but I took the OP to mean that he had a compact flash card rather than an external drive. Coupled with my misremembering about the hardware limits I came up with an elegantly _wrong_ suggestion. Go, me! -- The email address, above, is most certainly munged. Perhaps you might reply to the newsgroup, instead? Thanks!
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 8 Apr 2008 11:22 james <mentor(a)arisia.invalid> wrote: > Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist(a)deadspam.com> wrote in >> james <mentor(a)arisia.invalid> wrote: >>> Isn't there a 2Gig limit on the original flash specification? >> Maybe you are thinking about SD cards (secure digital). > I stand corrected. I wouldn't say that you were wrong about 2 GB limit on flash disks as also SD cards contain flash memory. The OP didn't say what kind of flash disk he had. > From www.compactflash.org/pr/030302b.pdf: > support CompactFlash card capacities up to 137GB. CompactFlash is yet another memory card type which also is used in many digital cameras. IIRC they have an interface looking like the IDE specification so it is easy to build CF-IDE converters. regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost
From: marksouth on 8 Apr 2008 16:11
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:16:00 +0200, Helmut Hullen wrote: > Hallo, marksouth, > > Du meintest am 08.04.08: > >>> vfat has a 2 GByte limit per partition. > >> I have a 200 GB external drive on the desk in front of me, formatted as >> VFAT, in a single partition. > >> How did that happen, then? > > s/partition/file/ And possibly s/4/2/ as well. |