12 bit FAT?

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2 total messages Started by Oliver Weatherbee Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:19

#3770

Author: Oliver Weatherbee
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:19

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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

Re: 12 bit FAT?

#3768

Author: Douglas R. Nebeker - MIS_SAS
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.


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Douglas R. Nebeker          Internet: supervisor@sasb.byu.edu

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