I like to buy old used chips that can have lots of hidden junk on them. Its best to really clean them. Not a problem with cf chips but sd stuff is really slow. 32 gigs and higher just doesn't make it.
cheers DS On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 03:16:35 -0500 "TJ Edmister" <damag...@hyakushiki.net> writes: > On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:29:56 -0500, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> > wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > >> The DOS format utility is kind of an anachronism at this point. > Usually > >> it > >> takes a long time to format a partition because it's iterating > through > >> every sector of the disk. It's completely unnecessary these days. > All it > >> really needs to do is write a boot sector, FAT, and root > directory. > > > > That is why FORMAT has options for QUICK format, which does > > exactly that: Write only the FAT, root dir and boot sector. > > > > Optionally, that combines with making a backup of those areas > > near the end of the disk, allowing a later UNFORMAT. But of > > course quick format is quickest without that backup step ;-) > > > > Of course both do not work with never-yet-formatted floppies. > > > > Eric > > When formatting a harddisk partition (or flash or whatever the > actual > medium is), MS FORMAT relies on a correct boot sector already having > been > created by FDISK. I discovered this not long ago when I tried to > resize a > partition by tweaking the MBR with a sector editor. I changed a 20GB > > partition to 60GB. But when I ran FORMAT, it continued to report > 20GB. I > had to change the size in the partition's boot sector as well. And > this is > just to perform a slow format. As for quick format, it doesn't work > unless > the partition has previously been slow-formatted to create a valid > FAT. > This behavior makes sense in the context of FAT16 where the disk is > > checked for bad clusters which can then be marked in the FAT. In the > > context of FAT32, not so much... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and > Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & > more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, > FREE > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clk trk > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ____________________________________________________________ > Protect what matters > Floods can happen anywhere. Learn your risk and find an agent today. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/54847d501eb0d7d4f66dfmp11duc > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
