From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 27 19:05:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA12469 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:05:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kalypso.cybercom.net (kalypso.cybercom.net [206.28.134.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA12454 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlanta (mfd-dial1-18.cybercom.net [206.28.134.50]) by kalypso.cybercom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA04667; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:03:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970428020338.00707950@cybercom.net> X-Sender: ksmm@cybercom.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:03:38 -0400 To: Terry Lambert From: The Classiest Man Alive Subject: Re: VFAT 32 support in msdosfs Cc: terry@lambert.org, joa@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de, hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:07 PM 4/27/97 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >>>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 formatted the drive as a FAT drive then installed Windows 95. It booted. I'm not sure what else there is to tell you. >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. > Look, man, back up off me. I don't know from a bootblock or IO.SYS, but I just installed straight onto a FAT formatted drive. The resulting installation now reads/writes both VFAT and VFAT32 drives (as indicated by their properties). If you ever need to convert back and forth, Partition Magic 3.0 does the job admirably. K.S.