jaz@abvax.UUCP (Jack A. Zucker) (06/30/89)
Does anyone have any experience with directly manipulating DOS 4.0's File Allocation Table ? I had thought that I read that dos 4.0 used 32 bit fat entries but the technical reference manual section 2.2 does not mention 32 bit fats. It mentions a bigger FAT table. (128 kb of disk space, up from 32kb in dos 3.3). P.S. I just read a section in the manual about Extended Bios Parameter Blocks. Is this kludgy or what ? -Jaz
chasm@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Charles Marslett) (07/01/89)
In article <779@abvax.UUCP>, jaz@abvax.UUCP (Jack A. Zucker) writes: > Does anyone have any experience with directly manipulating DOS 4.0's File > Allocation Table ? I had thought that I read that dos 4.0 used 32 bit fat > entries but the technical reference manual section 2.2 does not mention > 32 bit fats. It mentions a bigger FAT table. (128 kb of disk space, up from > 32kb in dos 3.3). That's right! The disk will contain no more than 64K clusters, but if the drive/partition is larger than 128 MB, the cluster will be made 4K or 8K or larger. > -Jaz Charles =========================================================================== Charles Marslett STB Systems, Inc. <== Apply all standard disclaimers Wordmark Systems <== No disclaimers required -- that's just me chasm@killer.dallas.tx.us <== soon to be attctc.dallas.tx.us I think