Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By Von Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:25 pm
Ok it seems like my mac is reading the 2kxl partitioned cf card as fat 16 & only allowing me to access a small part of the card. I want to fill up this 4 gig card and use it to transfer wav files to my internal cf reader.

I have bought MpcPgmMaker in hopes that it would fix the problem I'm having..
Am I missing something?.

I found this info on the web about fat 16 I have a feeling that it has something to do with my problem.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks
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Disadvantages of FAT16 are:

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The root folder can manage a maximum of 512 entries. The use of long file names can significantly reduce the number of available entries.
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FAT16 is limited to 65,536 clusters, but because certain clusters are reserved, it has a practical limit of 65,524. Each cluster is fixed in size relative to the logical drive. If both the maximum number of clusters and their maximum size (32 KB) are reached, the largest drive is limited to 4 GB on Windows 2000. To maintain compatibility with MS-DOS, Windows 95, and Windows 98, a FAT16 volume should not be larger than 2 GB.
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The boot sector is not backed up.
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There is no built-in file system security or file compression with FAT16.
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FAT16 can waste file storage space in larger drives as the size of the cluster increases. The space allocated for storing a file is based on the size of the cluster allocation granularity, not the file size. A 10-KB file stored in a 32-KB cluster wastes 22 KB of disk space.