10-12-11: Dhl93449The 32 GB limit is just a limitation of XP's formatting capability, not of the FAT32 file system. Third-party partition management programs can create FAT32 partitions having much larger sizes, which XP and other OS's will then be able to read and write.
Are you not exceeding the file format limitations for FAT32 with those drives? I thought drives of that size require NTFS file systems? Win XP, for example, cannot format a volume greater than 32 GB in FAT32.
Based on the conventional standard of 512 bytes per sector, a FAT32 drive can be as large as about 2.19 TB (Terabytes).
FAT32 also has a limitation on the maximum size of an individual file of about 4 GB, which can often come into play in video applications. It is also much more prone to data loss and corruption than NTFS, for instance if power happens to drop out at the wrong instant. A downside of NTFS, though, is that Mac OS's can't write to it without third-party software.
10-03-11: Audioman58I have assumed that what the BDP-1 is attempting to do during the excessive amount of time Jaytea has described is to create some sort of index of what is on the drive.
One thing not mentioned was that the card reader in the bdp is only 4-GIGS it is not supposed to store your collection,it's main purpose is to read whatever cd or songs you want from either a seperate HD or thumb drive ...
Regards,
-- Al