So I was doing a directory dump to an external drive provided to use by a customer.

160 GB drive, Maxtor, blah blah blah... start copying... would get about 1/2 way done then just stop "Parameter is incorrect!"

Took some fiddling until I realized that FAT32 can't hold a file larger than 4 GB.... damn VM is 32 GB.
Ugh, now I'm waiting on everything to move off the drive to a temp space then formatting and copying again.

Seriously is stupid annoyance.

11/17/2008 11:03:53 AM

well how do you suggest that a 32 bit addressing system handle files larger than 4 294 967 295 bytes?

11/17/2008 11:14:10 AM

^ Stop, IT'S WINDOWS' FAULT!

11/17/2008 11:17:36 AM

Ha ha ha, didn't say that it should....

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"Seriously is stupid annoyance."

Perhaps a better explanation on to a failed copy other than "Parameter is incorrect" would have been more suitable, hell, I would haven't complained if I had gotten an easily traceable error code.

11/17/2008 11:19:37 AM

i guess that FAT32 didnt tip you off?

11/17/2008 11:21:09 AM

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"an external drive provided to use by a customer"

Do you check the formatting on a drive provided to you by every customer?

Seriously dude, get off your high horse. My complaint was about the LACK OF FEEDBACK from Windows.

11/17/2008 11:28:35 AM

He has a point, seems like it would be quick and easy for the OS to check all the files for their size and stop/warn about those exceeding the limit.

11/17/2008 11:41:14 AM

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"Do you check the formatting on a drive provided to you by every customer?"

no, because i dont have to deal with people

its great

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"He has a point, seems like it would be quick and easy for the OS to check all the files for their size and stop/warn about those exceeding the limit."

and when have you known any system to do something the quick and easy way?

[Edited on November 17, 2008 at 11:47 AM. Reason : 

11/17/2008 11:45:07 AM

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"Do you check the formatting on a drive provided to you by every customer?"

Isn't it common knowledge that all externals come as Fat32?

11/17/2008 12:41:32 PM

This is a completely legitimate complaint.

I run into the same damn problem quite a bit.

11/17/2008 12:58:44 PM

Yeah copying a large movie to a Macbook is a bitch. Can't use fat32, or HFS+ on windows. Could use NTFS, but time machine won't work on it. Ended up partitioning an external NTFS and HFS+.

11/17/2008 1:19:01 PM

NTFS and this wouldn't happen

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""Parameter is incorrect!""

i agree it should be more descript

11/17/2008 1:20:18 PM

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"and when have you known any system to do something the quick and easy way?"

Mac OS X

11/17/2008 1:43:03 PM

ah

my troll bait worked

11/17/2008 2:19:04 PM

is that what that was? I just thought you were dumb and couldn't remember what the OS was called. :shrug:

11/17/2008 3:00:51 PM

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"NTFS and this wouldn't happen"

Yeah the problem is that all external drives come formatted by default in Fat32. And this is a customer provided drive, which means there is already likely data on it, data which for a variety of reasons, he may not want to copy/move/touch.

It's definitely a pain point. I wish Windows supports HFS+ and MacOS *really* supported NTFS so we could end the life of Fat32

11/17/2008 5:18:43 PM

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"is that what that was? I just thought you were dumb and couldn't remember what the OS was called. :shrug:"

well that could have been it

its probably easy to remember the os name when you have jobs cock slamed to the hilt in your mouth

11/17/2008 5:27:48 PM

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"its probably easy to remember the os name when you have jobs cock slamed to the hilt in your mouth"

while I'm sure that would make things easier too, I find that by not being an idiot works just fine.

11/17/2008 7:17:35 PM

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"I wish Windows supports HFS+ and MacOS *really* supported NTFS so we could end the life of Fat32"

QFT

[Edited on November 17, 2008 at 7:28 PM. Reason : ,]

11/17/2008 7:28:05 PM

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"while I'm sure that would make things easier too, I find that by not being an idiot works just fine."

i fail to see how being an obsessive fanboi isnt being an idiot

but what do i know, i dont drink the kool-aid

11/17/2008 8:28:59 PM

It is a pain in the ass though that you need extra crap to make it work. It took me a bit to figure out how to format all my external drive for different purposes and computers. I finally settled on my big drive to HFS+ to act as a Time Machine as for media storage and my smaller WD passport formatted to NTFS to be compatible with the random and 99% Windows computers it often connects to.

I'm then using MacDrive to read HFS+ in windows and Paragon NTFS to read NTFS in Mac with great results.

11/17/2008 8:51:35 PM

ZFS ftw

11/18/2008 10:24:10 AM

comedy ReiserFS option

>1TB file size limit, and it kills your wife when she starts cheating on you with the bondage clown!

11/18/2008 10:49:24 AM

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"i fail to see how being an obsessive fanboi isnt being an idiot"

Find us an obsessive 'fanboi' and we can discuss it.

11/18/2008 11:44:22 AM