Fomatting Compact Flash

yamba said:

If a CF card is formatted for a FAT filesystem with a block size of
8192, it has been shown to extend the video recording times to the
full capacity of the memory card. How and where is this done?

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chris gunn said:

yamba said:

If a CF card is formatted for a FAT filesystem with a block size of
8192, it has been shown to extend the video recording times to the
full capacity of the memory card. How and where is this done?

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Try searching here "format cluster full"
should do it (All Text)

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cheers!

Gunn
CF data base:
http://www.finepix.nl/memcards/

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yamba said:

yamva said:

yamva said:

If a CF card is formatted for a FAT filesystem with a block size of
8192, it has been shown to extend the video recording times to the
full capacity of the memory card. How and where is this done?

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Try searching here "format cluster full"
should do it (All Text)

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yamva said:

Thanks Chris, I found the "Tailwind" post of September "02 which
was very good and explained the formatting in great detail.

Thanks

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