Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!csbrod From: csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: FATs and Formatted Floppies Message-ID: <1991May27.194740.1503@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Date: 27 May 91 19:47:40 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany Lines: 18 ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes: >I have tried a number of different formatters, both public and >shareware. I would very much like to know *why* most of these >formatters add 5 sector FATs? There are so few that propose 3 sector >FATs! You are right, 3 FAT sectors are sufficient. All the formatters I've written generate small FATs and give you additional space on every disk. To my knowledge, there's no special reason why the Desktop uses a 5-sector-FAT. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2, Things. Take. Time. D-8772 Marktheidenfeld, Germany (Piet Hein) csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Claus_Brod@wue.maus.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------