Subject: Re: CF Microdrives 4-5-6GB
To: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 06/27/2005 14:05:54
On 6/27/05, Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Andy Ruhl wrote:
>=20
> > As far as I can tell, you can just format those things and use them as
> > you would any standard hard drive. The microsoft stuff only matters if
> > you plan on using the drive with something else. And yes, you would
> > have to use fat 32 to use the entire drive.
>=20
> However, if the card is formatted as a small-ish FAT partition (< 1 GB) a=
nd
> large NetBSD-ffs partition, then there's no problems at all with FAT16.

Yeah, I was sorta assuming that "shared" meant that the entire drive
space was shared and this was just an add-on drive, not a root drive.
I probably should have said that.

Andy