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Subject: [OM] Re: OT - Moose fesses up [was SDHC deal [was Quick Question]]
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:51:00 -0500
Never tried it but Win NT supported a 4GB FAT 16 by using 64KB clusters. 
  I suspect that you can cause the command line version of format to 
create a 4GB FAT 16 CF card by directly spec'ing the cluster size.

Chuck Norcutt

usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Gee,
> Thanks for that quick report , Moose.? Much food for thought.? (sorry, 
> couldn't resist)
> I'll pass it by the boss, as she'll use it first as a horse-cam.??Possibly 
> the slightly more compact profile,
> build quality, hot shoe will trump the hinged LCD/AA advantages as well as 
> reduced cost.? I'm really liking the idea of the tiltable LCD. She may have 
> been smitten?with the G9 (much less so than with?the nice 4T with new grip) 
> and I won't lobby too much.
> ? 
> Noticed that chdk won't load on start-up as you say unless formatted in 
> FAT-16 on larger cards.? On HD's that leads to a ton of wasted space.? I'm 
> not sure with the large image files if the cluster size matters?as much.
> 
> Mike

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