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In Reply to: RE: cMP - the open source high-end Memory Player posted by cics on December 30, 2007 at 05:42:01
cics,In your cMP guide at "Setting up Windows XP Professional (SP2)" you recommend to set the allocation unit to 64 kB for the music drive.
How?
In my SP2 formatting options go up to 4096 bytes only?!thanks
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In my SP2 formatting options go up to 4096 bytes only!
Launch "Disk Management" from Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management and you'll find the option becomes available.
Don't worry too much about it - the reason for the suggestion, which was IIRC mine (it's been a while) is that it makes sense to use a larger sector size when you know you'll be dealing almost entirely with large files. Is it going to transform your sound? Nope. Will it do any harm? Nope.
HTH
Launch "Disk Management" from Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management and you'll find the option becomes available.
On a full cMP system the above Disk Management is not possible - "The RPC server is unavaiable" - because so many services/options have been stopped.
Cics or anyone else, could you please tell me how to temporary reactivate it in order to set the allocation unit to 64 kB for the music drive?
Thanks
. . . how to temporary reactivate it [ RPC ] in order to set the allocation unit to 64 kB for the music drive?
IIRC, as well as enabling RPC, you also need to enable the two Logical Disk Management services. But I wouldn't worry too much if you've formatted the disk in a different way - it'll be fine.
A 64KB sector size makes sense for a music drive (where file sizes are large) but it also makes sense not to lose sleep over it.
HTH
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Connect your hard disk as external (or internal) to any computer (a notebook, a desktop) and format the necessary hard disk partition with any allocation unit. (I use mobile racks both in cMP2 and in a desktop - it is very convenient).
Thanks.
I am just making a new cMP2 and I want to follow all possible guides.
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