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Subject: HPFS on a Floppy -  Totally Impossible ???
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From: wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner)
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Subject: Re: HPFS on a Floppy ?
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In article <13201@aggie.ucdavis.edu> s142029@fred.ucdavis.edu writes:
> >
> >    I am just wandering, since I haven't read the manual, but is it possible
> >to format a floppy with HPFS on it ?  I have tried
> 
> It is not possible,.  I think That they wanted to keep the Floppies Standard
> so that you didn't think that the disks are blank and re-format them when
> you are running DOS.  It probably also has something to do with the buffering 
> system for HPFS that makes it work well, and the number of buffers used woud
> basicly make it read the entore floppy when you first put the disk in and read 
> it.   Then you get the fun of dealing with systems that don't properly do the
> disk change lead thing.
> 
> Wim
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     Do you mean absolutely impossible.  I was thinking about trying to fool
FORMAT.COM into thinking the floppy drive is another fixed disk.  I don't know
much about HPFS file structure organization, so clarify it for me.  I was
hoping to patch FORMAT.COM or getting OS/2 to think that the floppy drive is
a fixed disk with 2 heads, 80 cylinders, 9 sectors per track.  How about that ?
Anyone know about this ?  Larry (IBM) ? ...

T. Huynh

PS : What was that IBM toll-free number for complaints and concerns again ?  I
missed it ?