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Re: is this a known bub in repeater?

You could probably just plug it into the pc and defrag directly and plug it
back into the Rptr, no?

Cliff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Ritchford" <tom@swirly.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: is this a known bub in repeater?


> >This could be your issue.  To defragment the memory, you might try
transfering
> >all the files on the card to your computer, reformatting the card (with
the
> >Repeater) then putting the files back on.  I've never tried this, but 
>I'd
> >imagine it would work.  Has any one done this?
>
> defragmentation is definitely an issue for CompactFlash.  There is
basically
> a DOS filesystem on these little cards and if you remember from DOS the
> access gets slower the more times you change things and change the
> File Allocation Tables.  If the FAT gets too fat then it might even 
>spread
> over several 'sectors' and you'd have to read the disk twice just to
> discover where the next part of the file is...
>
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