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Ian Staples <staplei@planet.ari.dpi.qld.gov.au> wrote in article
<ELu6oE.Gv2@planet.ari.dpi.qld.gov.au>...
> Jason Clifford <postmaster@127.0.0.1> writes:
> 
> >Freedom of Choice wrote:
> [...]
> >> assume it wont be long before an updated version of FIPS is available
> >> that will support Fat32.....even though ms wont release any specs,
look
> >> at NTFSDOS...snigger snigger
> 
> >It is already out. I say the announcement which was psoted
> >on one of the FreeBSD newsgroups pointing to the Linux FAT32
> >homepage which now contains fips15b.zip which DOES SUPPORT
> >FAT32.
> 
> Having just written to Jason to ask him where to find it, I found
> it all by myself. 8-)
> 
> However, it seems its support for FAT32 is not universal.  Here's
> what I found at http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html
> Quoting the author, Gordon Chaffee:
> 
> " Fips is a program to non-destructively resize a FAT partition. 
> I have done an update to fips to support FAT32. However, it still 
> does not support partitions marked with type 0xC, 0xE, or 0xF. 
> All of these partition type use Logical Block Addressing (LBA). 
> LBA allows the BIOS to address disks over 8GB. A partition type 
> of 0xC is a FAT32 partition that uses Logical Block Addressing (LBA). 
> A partition type of 0xE is a FAT16 partition that uses LBA. A partition 
> type of 0xF is a FAT16 partition that uses LBA but is less than 32MB. "
> 
> Cheers,  Ian S.
> 
> P.S. fips15b.zip is available as a link on the above page. 
> It's about 178K.
> 
I tried it on my 4 Gb WD with 1 FAT32 partition. All seemed to go well, but
Win95 wouldn't boot afterwards. You should take Gordon's advice to backup
the boot and root partitions seriously; restorrb.exe got Win95 going again.