So try formatting the card FAT16 in your computer. You lose a little space (avg
32kb/photo) but
may gain performance
See some benchmarks at http://www.core-sound.com/pdaudio_system/6.php
The absolute limit for fat16 is 4GB, but cameras may croak sooner because of
the 64kb cluster
size.
tOM
On Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 22:58,
Chuck Norcutt <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yup, I think FAT32 is the culprit as well. A fair amount of overhead
> designed for better performance with random access on small records.
> Just adds overhead for images which need large, sequential blocks for
> the most part. The 4GB cards would perform better with FAT16 and 64KB
> clusters ala Win NT.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Moose wrote:
> >
> > I don't know how much a new production technology will help, as it
> > seemed it was probably related to the need to go FAT32 above 2gb.
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