Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Aug 1997 11:49:03 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: FAT12 vs FAT16 |
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Hi,
> Not if it's a disk supported by MS-DOS or created using MS-DOS tools. > MS-DOS format will not (read cannot) make such a disk. Even with its > media type/size/heads options, it doesn't have the code necessary to > produce a disk under any other rules because it calculates the > clusters not you, and it uses the 4085 cluster rule for writing the FAT. > > Just because, in principle I can make a disk with one cluster and a 16-bit > FAT, does not mean that it is a MS-DOS disk. MS-DOS will not understand > such a disk so no other OS should bother with such a deviation either.
Unfortunately, the rules are not the same for different DOS versions :-(
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@gts.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "A LISP programmer knows value of everything, but cost of nothing."
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