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From: U39648@uicvm.uic.edu (Darius Vaskelis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: HPFS on a Floppy - Totally Impossible ???
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Date: 7 Jun 91 04:16:11 GMT
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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
>?

Nope.  Last I checked, I think the minimum size for an HPFS partition was
14M.  Bummer, eh?

And might I add, HPFS on a floppy would suck, bigtime, in terms of
performance.  FAT was designed for floppies, and HPFS is designed for
hard disks.  Imagine your floppy files being shuffled around to keep
them contiguous while you tried to work... you might accidently remove
the floppy while it's being played with.

More interesting, I want to hear about the rumor that the newer and
improved FAT file system that IBM has designed for the commercial
release of OS/2 2.0 is FASTER than HPFS in some circumstances!  Any
truth to this, people-in-the-know?

- Darius
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