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From: berg@cip-s05.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Solitair)
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Subject: Boot sector parameter table tricks
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Date: 16 Jul 90 11:16:04 GMT
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When I change things like the no. of FAT's or the start of the first FAT
sector, in this table on my hard disk and/or on floppies, my MSDOS 3.3
does not acknowledge this and does not use the new offsets and sizes.

Does MSDOS 3.3 use some other ways to determine these parameters?
(Well, it actually shouldn't, but apparently it does :-)

Can anyone shed some light onto this matter?
--
Sincerely,                             |"I code it in 5 min, optimize it in 90
           Stephen R. van den Berg.    | min, because it's so well optimized:
uunet!mcsun!unido!rwthinf!cip-s01!berg | it runs in 5 only min.  Actually, most
berg@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de | of the time I optimize programs."