The 14 bytes preceding are reserved for the 4th promary partition...
It seems to have gone out of fashion because most format programs today allow only 1 primary partition and all extended partitions seam to be chained to one another starting with only one primary partition as container.
I sometimes use more than one primary partition. For instance, on this machine I am using, I have one primary partition for FreeDOS and another for Win98. Grub changes them to active whenever I choose it for boot.
Soem time ago I neede one for DrDOS too, so I had 3 primaries... So, it can happen. Alain Eric Auer escreveu:
Hi, I noticed that DOSFSCK 2.11 no longer checks if the fsinfo sector (usually 2nd sector of a FAT32 filesystem, right after the boot sector) ends in 00 00 55 aa. Instead, it only checks if it ends in 55 aa. My question: Have you ever seen a FAT32 disk where the 2 bytes before the 55 aa were not 00? Actually on most systems there are even 14 bytes "00" before the 55 aa: 3 reserved dwords and then a dword 00 00 55 aa... Please have a look at your FAT32 disks, in particular when you have a very new and shiny version of Windows. I wonder if they started putting non-0 data at that place. Thanks! And enjoy the easter days :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
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