[ltp] Re: mounting CF card
Pekka Pessi
Pekka.Pessi at nokia.com
Wed Apr 16 12:17:26 CEST 2003
Atul Chitnis <achitnis at exocore.com> writes:
>From experience in the past, writing to the card causes some extra
>attributes and other information to be written to the card in
>vfat/FAT32 mode, and (at least with Kodak cameras and a few Sonys),
>this causes some cameras to get totally confused and at least one (my
>Kodak DC290 with previous firmware) to report that the card wasn't
>formatted.
I have had no such problems with vfat and Canon Powershots, but
Canons *do* get confused if you write to the card with an
Windows XP host. So, if you do not want to take any chances, use
msdos.
Pekka
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