[LMB] AKICOTL: Technical question OT:

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:10:19 -0600, Mark Allums <mark at allums.com>

wrote:
> Do you know of another option?  The drive will only be used with
> Windows XP.  Compression is unlikely to be helpful.  Splitting
> the file into smaller parts is what I wanted to avoid by buying
> the thing in the first place.  Well, that and the extremely long
> time it takes to burn DVD-ROMs.  Can Windows be taught to read and
> write ext2/ext3 or MINIX file systems?  (Would they be any less
> fraught with danger than NTFS?)

> Suggestions welcomed.

I don't doubt there's some way to get Windows to recognise ext2 etc. filesystems, but there's a simpler idea: Get an 8-gig SDHC card and the appropriate USB plugin cardreader. They're formatted FAT32 instead of FAT16. The file size limit would then be 4G.

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