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From: chasm@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Charles Marslett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dos 4.0 FAT
Summary: FAT is still 16-bits/entry, but you can have 64K-9 entries now
Keywords: File Allocation Table
Message-ID: <8506@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 1 Jul 89 05:13:31 GMT
References: <779@abvax.UUCP>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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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
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