Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 12:07:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: ksmm@cybercom.net (The Classiest Man Alive) Cc: terry@lambert.org, joa@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VFAT 32 support in msdosfs Message-ID: <199704271907.MAA08985@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970426232352.007060a4@cybercom.net> from "The Classiest Man Alive" at Apr 26, 97 07:23:52 pm
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> >These machines are capable of reading long-name-in-volume-label FAT
> >drives ("VFAT"). But the partitions they use by default, and the
> >partition table format, and the MBR and the io.sys/io.dos/msdos.dos
> >where the INT 21 interface is instantiated *all* expect VFAT32. I'm
> >not sure that an OEMSR2 INT 21 is capable of identifying and booting
> >from a "VFAT" drive at all.
>
> Windows 95 OEM SR2 certainly can boot from a VFAT drive. That's my point.
> VFAT32 may be coming into widespread use, but I don't think it's time for us
> (or Microsoft) to start dropping support for VFAT.
I don't know how you got an OEMSR2 boot block and INT 21 code onto a
VFAT drive, but I'd be interested in finding out.
I suspect that if you are running OEMSR2 on VFAT that you have the
older bootblock code.
MSDN-2 developers (like me) got betas with the ability to "upgrade" an
existing VFAT drive to VFAT32. Since there was no reverse process, I
wonder at how you can claim to be using the VFAT32 io.sys on a VFAT
drive.
In any case, normal end users who get new machines with OEMSR2
already installed (like all new Dell machines) get VFAT32 installed
by default.
FYI: You can't go down to a computer store and buy OEMSR2: it is only
available in the beta form set to developers and the final form sent
to PC manufacturers for inclusion on new systems.
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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