RE: [Sheflug] floppy problems

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk 
> [mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Beer, Martin
> Sent: 30 November 2004 14:24
> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> Subject: RE: [Sheflug] floppy problems
> 
> Not sure of Red Hat but I have had this difficulty with a 
> number of operating systems, particularly with new larger 
> memory sticks.

>From memory [sic], it's generally a FAT restriction in terms of a
maximum amount of space allocated for the root directory. ISTR FAT32
relaxed this restriction.

A quick google turned up this:

<quote>

Finally, the fourth part of the system area is the root directory. There
is one file record in the root directory for each file contained in the
root of that disk. Records are 32 bytes in length. The number of sectors
that the root directory occupies varies according to the capacity of the
disk; for a 1.44 MB floppy, the root directory occupies 14 sectors.Each
file record in the root directory contains several fields:

     filename:   8 characters (bytes)

     extension:  3 characters (bytes)

     attributes:  1 byte 

     reserved:   10 bytes

     modtime:   2 bytes

     moddate:   2 bytes

     starting sector:  2 bytes 

     size:    4 bytes
</quote>

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D
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