Recently I upgraded to a Deva V, which I am now wondering why I waited so long,but now comes the question of what to do with my Deva II, I am getting the impression that FAT 16 is becoming either obsolete or at least something that creates havoc at Post houses. I also got the feeling from some earlier posts somewhwere that newer Fostex DV40's can not read FAT 16, is this correct ? I was thinking of doing away with a DAT back-up which I do out of habit and use the Deva II as a backup. Though I have never lost audio with either Deva, hard drives do fail and I do feel the need to have a second machine on the cart. It seems using FAT 16 as a backup when everything was recorded at FAT 32 is a bad idea. Would love to hear from the Post side of things as well as from Mixers who find themselves in a similar situation. It makes it harder since recently I had a case stolen with all my Deva II cables and extra hard drives, as if that has any value to anyone the street.
Thanks
David Obermeyer