>> Yes, you are right. But I don't understand this: if the number of
>> sectors per cluster is a power of two coded in a single byte, why the
>> maximum cluster size is 32K and not 64K (128 sectors)?
>
>About the maximum number of sectors per cluster, it's only a sort of
>speculation... I know MS-DOS can't handle partitions bigger than 2 GB
>using FAT16, I guess it's because the "128" value (1000 0000 bin) was
>reserved for a specific "sentinel" method or something else... don't
Yes, this is the most logic possibility.
>forget MicroSoft is behind this ... so forget about logic ;-)
"With 640K RAM in your PC you will have enough in the future". Bill Gates
dixit some years ago. X-D
>About the RAMDISK changes I made, it included both the number of sectors
>per cluster and all the FAT related values: size and "start at", and
>also the sector number for the begin of all what needed changes (begin
>of ROOT, etc)
>I also tryed to enlarge the ROOT size, allowing more entries to be
>stored... (112 files on a disk was too short for me sometimes)
And all of these changes worked? Good. Then we will not have problems with
this point.
>I wish you will succeed in this project with all the help other can give
>you !
I hope so! Taro Kashiwazaki said to me that he is preparing a reply to my
technical information request! \(^v^)/
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