Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:23:52 -0400 From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: joa@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VFAT 32 support in msdosfs Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970426232352.007060a4@cybercom.net>
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At 12:41 PM 4/26/97 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
>>>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.
>
>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.
K.S.
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