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Article #3768Re: 12 bit FAT?
From: Douglas R. Nebeker - MIS_SAS
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:41
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:41
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In article <C1Ko0q.BE2@news.udel.edu> oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu (Oliver Weatherbee) writes: >Hi, > > Yes another bonehead with a problem. I'm trying to set up a new IDE drive >on my system and keep getting stack overflow problems. One strange thing I >found is that the when I display partition information, under the system >category it says I have FAT12 (12-bit file allocation problem). Does anyone >have any idea why dos5.0 would do this and not set up a FAT16? > >thanks, > Oliver > > DOS 5 can use either a 12 or 16 bit FAT. If your drive has less than FF1h clusters, DOS will use a 12 bit FAT (thus giving you a little more space for data). You'd have to have a pretty small partition to end up with a 12 bit FAT (less than 20 Meg) but I just created a small one and that's what I ended up with. ______ Douglas R. Nebeker Internet: supervisor@sasb.byu.edu
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Nntp-Posting-Host: curtisn.byu.edu Lines: 24 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.byu.edu!news Message-ID: <a2#@byu.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:41:25 MST Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc From: $dougn@sasb.byu.edu (Douglas R. Nebeker - MIS_SAS) Subject: Re: 12 bit FAT? References: <C1Ko0q.BE2@news.udel.edu> Organization: Brigham Young University