What Is an SFD-Formatted USB Stick?

[skeezix]

I see this term in earlier documentation (ca 2010)but I don't know what it means or how to format anything in SFD format.

[aprilla]

My PSR5700 had a floppy drive, we used SFD format back in those floppy days, could it refer to that? Or does it specifically say for USB.

[GeirH]

Hi guys,

A "superfloppy" (SFD) is basically any removable storage without partitioning. The entire media is instead treated as a single partition. If it is listed as a requirement for USB sticks on your instrument, it probably means that a USB stick containing multiple partitions can't be used.

SFD is not a file system like FAT32 or NTFS, but rather an underlying partitioning format, like GPT or MBR. It is commonly used on traditional floppy disks, JAZ- and ZIP disks, CD- and DVD-ROM, etc.

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