Formatting your internal Hardrive-EMU or FAT?
Posted:
Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:04 amby somsay
Whats the difference with the EMU formating and the FAT formating?
if you have an internal harddrive in your emu?
anyone know?
For now im gonna try to use the fat...so maybe i can back it up with my pc in the future?
i know i put my emu formatted harddrive in my pc and it doesnt reconize it.
Posted:
Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:43 amby et
i got a ide 20gig fat32 in emu e6400 ultra
and take out hd when wanna back up
works good in fat
don't trust the translator
Posted:
Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:41 pmby FilthyMcNasty
If you're on 4.1, the beast will only recognise E-mu format drives up to 4.7G or so. But if you're on 4.7 you can use FAT format & much larger drives, 80G etc.
True, your PC will recognise the FAT drive, but you'll need the chickensys translator to read EIV banks (i've heard there are problems with translators; missing samples, problems with modulation matrix etc. so be careful!).
I use 4.1, Zip, & Jaz, so I might be talking jibberish. There's a guy called Roonsmits on the forum; seems to be an SCSI shaman. Maybe He'll post if I've been talking garbage.
Posted:
Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:20 pmby wigworld
FAT format is a more efficient storage system than Emu - you'll squeeze more banks onto the same hard drive if it is FAT formatted.