Ian Malone: >>> Alternatively they could just revert to 8.3 support for files, it >>> wouldn't affect usb key applications as windows is handling the file >>> system then (but it's a blow to interoperability, USB keys wouldn't >>> work between Win and Mac or Linux). Tim: >> They're just a storage medium, so they use what's put on them. It's up >> to the computers using them as to how. We don't have "FAT" hard drives, >> CDs, etc. We simply have drive and discs. Mike McCarty: > This is untrue. Many discs and pseudo-discs come pre-formatted. Some do, some don't. That doesn't mean that they're a FAT disk, it's just a disk with an obese filesystem on it. You're, generally, not prevented from reformatting them, either. An IDE HDD is not a Windows IDE HDD, it's an IDE HDD that can be used on a variety of different PCs. The same goes for floppies, USB disks, etc. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
