On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> wrote:
On 2009/05/07 12:20 (GMT+0200) Per Inge Oestmoen composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/05/07 10:53 (GMT+0200) Per Inge Oestmoen composed:
jdd wrote:
you certainly can't have a 1Tb fat partition.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table it can be up to 2T, but I hardly think that a good plan
I think you may have a point there.
So that is the reason why I could not format the disk?
Maybe it's your choice of tool. Have you tried any other than YaST2? Since you want FAT, have you considered the eminently logical choice of using Vista to do it?
I have tried YaST, not YaST2, because the latter could not even see the disk. The trouble with Vista is that I have no access to any Vista machine. I brought the disk to the computer shop, where the shop assistant accessed it with Vista, but I refused to let him format the disk - because Vista cannot format with FAT according to that man.
I think he's wrong. Vista can format exFAT, so I'd be really surprised if it cannot also do legacy FAT.
Felix, Big Brother Bill does not think you are smart enough to know when to use FAT. So the MS disk partitioner will not allow the user to format partitions above a certain size as FAT (64GB?). You can use 3rd party tools or Linux to do so. Once formated, XP / Vista / etc. will work with it. Obviously the fundamental 2 TB limit applies to all situations. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org