Lpc2000

seangra wrote:

>Why would anyone want to use FAT12 on an SD card that's larger than 
>16 or 32MB anyway?  FAT-12 was great for floppy disks, to save that 
>few dozen KB on the FAT table because you only had 2MB to work with 
>in the first place, but anything past 32MB and you get into huge 
>sector sizes.  A 256MB card would have 64KB sector size!  Since FAT-
>16 is easier to implement, why wouldn't you just stick with that?
>
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Legacy, you will find that < 32meg is typically formatted as 12bit.  
Common sense just doesn't apply to all situations, I guess.  :-D


TomW


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