Thank you to all that answered this!
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John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743
631-424-2121 | Olympus OM Service since 1977
http://www.zuiko.com | omtech1 AT verizon.net
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> In addition to formatting the media the camera also creates some
> specific folders after the format which it uses for images and other
> info. Unless those folders are there the camera may not recognize the
> card.
>
> It would also be possible using the computer to format the card with
> other than a FAT-16 or FAT-32 format in which case the camera would
> never recognize the card even if the correct folders were put there. Or
> a FAT-32 format might be used on a camera which only undestands FAT-16.
> Or, even if the camera recognizes both FAT-16 and FAT-32 the computer
> created format could change other disk parameters such as sector and
> cluster sizes which would be unrecognizable to the camera. These latter
> things are less likely but possible.
>
> The computer has and recognizes many more format parameters than the
> camera which is made fairly dumb to minimize unnecessary code and costs.
> To be on the safe side never allow the computer to write anything to the
> CF card by either formatting or even erasing images. There's no valid
> reason to do so. It can only lead to trouble.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> John Hermanson wrote:
>
>
>>Would someone explain why formatting a cf or xd card with a computer
>>would render it unrecognizable when put into the camera? A third party
>>wants to know.
>>
>>___________________________________
>>John Hermanson
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