From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 26 12:45:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA05287 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 26 Apr 1997 12:45:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA05282 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 1997 12:45:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA07443; Sat, 26 Apr 1997 12:41:14 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704261941.MAA07443@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: VFAT 32 support in msdosfs To: ksmm@cybercom.net (The Classiest Man Alive) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 12:41:14 -0700 (MST) Cc: joa@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970426035451.006fa82c@cybercom.net> from "The Classiest Man Alive" at Apr 25, 97 11:54:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Is there VFAT32 support in the current msdosfs? If not,m I'd be ready to try > >and do it.. > >Note: From what I've heared, Windows95 that supports VFAT isn't even shipped > >any more. So this will probably be dying out soon.. :-) > > > > Where'd you hear that? Doesn't seem like Microsoft to just break the chain > of backward compatibility like that. New machines shiped with OEMSR2 come with VFAT32 preinstalled. This is basically every new Dell and similar manufacturer's machines. 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. Certaily, tools like "parted" will have to be updated... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.