Why would anyone format media outside of the recording device??? -
why would one ever even think of formatting the cards in the
computer? That's silly. All flash memory machines I have seen and
used perform better with their own formatting!
I've always had impressively quick startup on my H2, from the first
time, always less than ten seconds. Oryoki, is your that slow???
I generally erase the card in the computer after transferring, so
when I put the cards into the machines, the formatting is an
automatic requirement. I can't imagine another way! But then, I have
Macs only so doing the formatting in the computer was never an option.
I *always* format media in the device that will use it - even with
HD24, formatting it in the machine that uses it is the only thing
that makes sense. Are there ANY recording devices that actually
benefit form computer formatting of their media??? It never occurred
to me to try it. Even MDM digital multitracks require formatting the
tape in the same kind of machine that records it..
The only time I ever did "formatting" external to the recording
device was with tape and bulk erasers. Years ago. Analog habit for me...
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On Nov 15, 2007, at 8:33 PM, oryoki2000 wrote:
> 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
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