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GadgetGuru

02-08-2005, 12:19 PM

While Fiddling with my files, I noticed it's formatted for FAT. And my files is 162MB on my card but just over 147MB on my NTFS Windows XP.

When I formatted the card to FAT32 on my PC, the card is not recognized. Does Clie NX80 (and Palm OS5 in general) handle FAT32?

Cyker

02-08-2005, 01:13 PM

Sorry to correct you, but NO PalmOS device supports FAT32.

palo1

02-08-2005, 01:53 PM

I'm with Cyker on this one, not only does he have waaaay more posts than "The Mad Dog", he's also right :)

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Egalus

02-08-2005, 04:06 PM

And Fat16 only is also the reason for the 2GB max for microdrives in clies.

Cyker

02-08-2005, 04:20 PM

Yup.

I'm hoping Soft Tick or someone will make a FAT32 driver... I was gonna have a go but coding a file system is waaaaay over my head...! :eek:

palo1

02-08-2005, 04:46 PM

Yup.

... I was gonna have a go but coding a file system is waaaaay over my head...! :eek:
Wimp! :)

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Tam Hanna

02-09-2005, 04:11 AM

Hi Boys,
I am sorry to dissapoint you all:
No FAT32 on OS4, OS5....
BTW, try formatting the memory card with a smaller cluster size. There is a forum topic about this somewhere, it should help you.
BTW, here is a short explanation about why the files bloat:
Each File on a FAT/NTFS File system needs to have a size that equals a num,ber of clusters. Lets now say that we have a cluster size of 8KB and a 4kb file-Size on disk is 8KB, because a full cluster needs to be used.