Zoom H2 startup time

["oryoki2000" oryoki2000]

One issue I had with the Zoom H2 was the long startup time.  Using a
4GB SD card, it took about 45 seconds to be ready to record.  Now it
seems that there's a way to speed this up -- read on!

A person posting as "Ben" on the O'Reilly Digital Media web forum
reported the following:

"At first I'd formatted the SD card (2GB 150x) in my laptop as FAT32.
The H2 seemed to have no problem with that but I was getting 25-30
secs startup time. I then tried formatting it in the H2, and noticed
it formatted it as FAT (not FAT32). Since then I'm getting a startup
time of 6 secs - with the same card."

So if you format the SD card in the H2 rather than a computer, the
startup time is very brief.

--oryoki