From: Pauli.Ramo@hut.fi (no, I don't repeat it!) Subject: Re: mtools on root image Date: 17 Mar 1992 19:20:47 GMT
In article <1992Mar15.222925.22564@bernina.ethz.ch> almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) writes:
I few questions remain, however:
a) has anybody *ever* seen a floppy disk with a 16 bit FAT on it ?
Don't know for sure, but maybe the new 2.88 MB diskettes (found currently
only in some IBM PS/2's, but probably coming to other machines soon) use
something like that. If they still use 512-byte sectors, that makes
5760 sectors that simply can't be addressed with a 12-bit FAT.
b) has anybody *ever* seen a hard disk with a 12 bit FAT on it ?
Yes. I have installed several of them as boot partitions (~2MB) for
Netware 3.11.
Pauli