On 29 Dec 00 at 11:21, David Ratti wrote:
>By making more (2^32 vs 2^16) entries available in the File Allocation
>Table, FAT-32 makes possible larger partitions, with smaller Allocation
>Units, or Clusters. It has NO appreciable effect on access speed.
>
>Dave
Not always true.
When I made a FAT-16 drive ---> FAT-32, I noticed it took longer to load
big programs and files.
Supose you have a 64K byte file.
Supose that under FAT-16 you have 16K allocations, 4 allocations for the
file.
Supose you go to FAT-32 and 2k allocations, 32 allocations for the same
file.
If your drive is moderately fragmented, lets supose you have to read the
file in two diferent parts of the drive in FAT-16 but in FAT-32 it can
be 4 or more parts of the drive. The time it takes the head to move over
the drive makes a lot of difference.
I regularly run a DOS FAT-32 drive for all my DOS programs.
In a just formated disk:
I loaded WIN-98 complete.
Went to c:\windows\command.
Did Sys c:
Copied all c:\windows\command files to c:\dos
Copied several files from 6.22 to c:\dos (memmaker, help, etc)
Did deltree windows (the niciest step)
It works without a single problem.
DOS 7 is as good as 6.22
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