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    Re: USB stick issues???

    Quote Originally Posted by Oystercopy View Post
    They're brand new 1gb sticks, but they're not blue on the end. Standard metal swivel, all black.
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    Your problem is not the color on the end, it is the size of the USB drive. Find USB drives at 4 MB as we have not had success with using USB drives above that on many manufacturer's machines. They are out there you just need to look. Also how are you formatting the usb drive? FAT32 is a safe bet.

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    Re: USB stick issues???

    Surely you are meaning 4GB, but he is using 1GB.

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    Quote Originally Posted by davel View Post
    Surely you are meaning 4GB, but he is using 1GB.
    NO, just as I wrote 4 megabits. Most copiers do not have in their firmware the ability to handle the file allocation tables of the larger USB drives, that is why they fail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Santander View Post
    NO, just as I wrote 4 megabits. Most copiers do not have in their firmware the ability to handle the file allocation tables of the larger USB drives, that is why they fail.

    Are you sure? 4 megabits would fit on an old floppy with half the space left over.

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    Quote Originally Posted by darry1322 View Post
    Are you sure? 4 megabits would fit on an old floppy with half the space left over.
    Not any ordinary floppy. The largest capacity of standard floppies were 1.2MB for 8 inch dual sided dual density and 5.25 inch High Density, 1.44MB for 3.5 inch High Density and 2.88MB for 3.5 inch Extra-high Density.

    To get anything larger you have to go to Laser Servo Flopicals (Zip drives) and Superdisks (only one major supplier). Zip drives were briefly popular for data backup until users encountered reliable issues that rendered an entire disk unreadable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by slimslob View Post
    Not any ordinary floppy. The largest capacity of standard floppies were 1.2MB for 8 inch dual sided dual density and 5.25 inch High Density, 1.44MB for 3.5 inch High Density and 2.88MB for 3.5 inch Extra-high Density.

    To get anything larger you have to go to Laser Servo Flopicals (Zip drives) and Superdisks (only one major supplier). Zip drives were briefly popular for data backup until users encountered reliable issues that rendered an entire disk unreadable.

    But 4 megabits is equal to about 500 kilobytes. (@ 8 bits per byte)

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    Quote Originally Posted by darry1322 View Post
    But 4 megabits is equal to about 500 kilobytes. (@ 8 bits per byte)
    Wrong again idiot. 4MB is equal to 4,000 KB.

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    Quote Originally Posted by slimslob View Post
    Wrong again idiot. 4MB is equal to 4,000 KB.
    Bits and Bytes are not equal.

    Santander was clear he was referring to 4 megabits not 4 mega bytes or 4 gigabytes.

    4 megabits is 4 000 000 bits
    8 bits to a byte
    4 000 000 / 8 = 500 000 bytes or .5 MB

    Bit Calculator - Convert between bits/bytes/kilobits/kilobytes/megabits/megabytes/gigabits/gigabytes.
    Last edited by darry1322; 01-29-2020 at 06:15 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by darry1322 View Post
    Bits and Bytes are not equal.

    Santander was clear he was referring to 4 megabits not 4 mega bytes or 4 gigabytes.
    In santander's first post he said 4MB which is Mega Bytes. Mega bits would be Mb and is generally used to denote transmission speed not memory size.

    4 megabits is 4 000 000 bits
    8 bits to a byte
    4 000 000 / 8 = 500 000 bytes or .5 MB

    Bit Calculator - Convert between bits/bytes/kilobits/kilobytes/megabits/megabytes/gigabits/gigabytes.
    Using the bit calculator that you provided a link to, 4MB = 4096 kilobytes or 4194304 bytes.

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    Not necessary folks. OP got plenty of good opinions even in two threads he started.
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