Sorry I wasn't particularly clear on which was which. The examples I
gave of formats for particular CF sizes were done using /Applications/
Utilities/Disk Utility.
cheers
Paul
On 11/03/2008, at 1:36 AM, Lou Judson wrote:
> Are you talking here about "Disk Utility" or some command line using
> "diskutil"?
>
> I always format the cards in the device using them, whether it is
> camera or audio recorder. If I format a CF in my Mac then when I put
> it in the SD it asks if I want to format the card. So I'm pretty sure
> Disk Utility is not making FAT 32...
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> On Mar 9, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Paul Jacobson wrote:
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>> Hi Lou,
>>
>> OSX Diskutil calls a command line utility program called newfs_msdos.
>> According to the newfs_msdos manual page the utility can create
>> FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 files systems.
>>
>> I couldn't find any documentation of what format is used so I made up
>> disk images of various sizes and checked the diskutil logs to see
>> what commands were being called to format to MSDOS...
>>
>> 2.5MB - FAT12
>> 40Mb - FAT16
>> 1Gb - FAT 32
>> 2Gb - FAT32
>>
>> I've used Diskutil to format 1Gb and 4Gb CF cards for my HDP2 and it
>> works without problem. I still prefer to format the cards in the
>> recorder as there seems to be less likelihood of formating issues
>> using the same device - tho' this is probably superstition more than
>> anything else.
>>
>> cheers
>> Paul
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