Subj : Re: filesystems
To   : comp.programming
From : Bill Cunningham
Date : Fri Oct 07 2005 02:34 am

> That being said, there are several different partition types that imply
> FAT16 - 4, 6 and 14 come immediately to mind, but I think DOS 6 will
> only recognize 4 and 6.  Further, DOS is likely to spit up if you try
> to feed it  a partition bigger than about 2GB, tagged as FAT16 or not.

    Makes sense. I believe there was a FAT12 too. I don't know which was
used extensively with floppies as FAT was designed by someone to do. I also
believe, at least it's what someone told me that DOS 6.x has to be at the
beginning of the drive. At the first cylinder in the first partition. That
may be true also.

Bill

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