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Because people don't know what they are talking about. The exact file size limit is (2^32)-1 bytes unless you have a broken FAT32 implementation that uses int where it should not.
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To prevent your data drives from getting drive letters in the beginning, you need to make an Extended partition with a logcal drive in it, rather than a primary partition. When you use a primary on a second drive, Windows and DOS both assign letters like this:
DRIVE0_C DRIVE1_D DRIVE0_E DRIVE0_F DRIVE1_G
an
d so forth...but with a single extended part on the second drive, it would assign them like this:
Registered Member #77
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FAT32 as NTFS (as everyone has said) can be a pain in Linux. To format a FAT32 drive in Windows XP use the "/FS:FAT32" switch of the command line format utility.
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Of course this is a useless question now, but did you ever consider buying a Mac for your recording work? I have done some (very primitive) multitrack recording in Cubase on my iBook, and it worked surprisingly well. I don't know whether you use the computer for other things too, but if it is audio only, Mac would pretty much be optimal for that.
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I did consider it, but it always seemed to me that PCs deliver about twice the bang per buck that Macs do. Also, I like the geeky thrill of buying the components and building the machine myself, and I don't see Apple letting us do that.
Lately, the playing field has evened a lot, and you can get pretty much the same music software on both Mac and PC platforms. Cubase has always been available for both, and I've been using it on the PC since the late 90s. I mixed our band's demo CD digitally using Cubase VST/24 on my old Win98 machine.
I just want to try Linux for music out of curiosity.
Here's what I'm running now:
Hoojum Cubit 5 case (black) Shuttle SB83 mini motherboard w/Intel 915G chipset 2x Corsair 1GB DDR400 memory P4 3.0GHz HT CPU Some cheap $40 NVidia graphics card 2x WD 320GB SATA drives M-Audio Delta 1010 audio interface (got it cheap ex-demo, yay)
Windows XP Pro Sound Forge 7 hopefully going to get my grubby hands on Cubase SX soon
and Studio-To-Go! 1.5 when I get round to installing it.
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I also got the wrong drive letter for my windows partition once. That caused a lot of problems so I had to reinstall windows to get it fixed since it is not possible to change the drive letter of the system partition after the installation. The drive letters of other partitions can be changed easily though with "computer management". You can find that in the control panel if it's set to classic view. You can also repartition and format your disks there.
FAT32 is indeed not good because of the file size limitation and NTFS doesn't work well with linux so I would go with ext2 here. That will work well and fast under both OSs. Just install the ext2 driver from which is extremely easy. After that there will appear another symbol in the control panel which opens a window were you can assign a drive letter to your ext2 partition. Formatting ext2 can simply be done in linux.
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FAT32 or NTFS with Linux?
