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Re: is this a known bub in repeater?
At 6:37 PM -0700 8/28/02, Clifford Novey wrote:
>Why?
>c
>
>> much better just to upload the whole thing to the computer
> > and reformat the disk and reload the samples...
er, yes, as I sent this off I realized that I didn't really explain why
but I was just too slack to call it back...
Basically, if you reformat the card and put the information
back on, you KNOW what you are getting -- a completely empty
FAT that has been filled with just your files.
If you use someone's defragmentation utility, you don't know
what you are getting. Moreover, you are putting a lot of
read/write on the drive (which isn't really an issue for
solid state I suppose but is bad for hard drives).
At 6:46 PM -0700 8/28/02, Sean Echevarria wrote:
>If the CFC was close to being full, wouldn't writing the same files
>back to the CFC cause defragmentation?
I believe that you intended to write "fragmentation".
> You're assuming the writes will happen contiguously (not just
>unfragmented but also nice and neat with no gaps between each file)?
>It seems that if there are gaps between earlier files written, then
>the last files to be written will have to be fragmented.
It's not a requirement of DOS format but in practice disk driver
writers do in fact
allocate memory from a clean disk contiguously for that very reason.
/t
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