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Date:	Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:39:40 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: FAT32 Size ! Formatting ! (was: 32 GB FAT32)

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Peter Skye wrote:
>
> I'm off to http://fat32.netlabs.org/ and ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/fat32/

Yowza yowza yowza. You *can* format FAT32 on OS/2!!!

I downloaded the FAT32.IFS driver. And then I read the README (FAT32.TXT) file.

-- Size: At least one FAT32 implementation is restricted to only 16 GB.

From the FAT32.TXT file:

Win95R2 <= 16 GB

-- Formatting: You *can* format a FAT32 partition on OS/2 using the f32blank
utility on Hobbes. (The f32blank utility works real nice with DFSee.)

From the FAT32.TXT file:

1.Find out the volume relevant data: Heads, Sectors, Starting point and Size using DFSee
2.Feed F32Blank with that data to generate a file with blank FATs suitable for the volume
3.Detach the volume (with LVM it's called 'hide' or similar)
4.Use DFSee to overwrite the volume with the file contents, using "wrim".
5.Attach again the volume.
6.If after this you can't read/write properly the volume or it appears as not empty,
then you MUST reboot and check it again.
7.If you don't like DFSee go and find something else capable of doing the job.

And here I was, trying to put together a hex editor script to do what f32blank already does.

References:
http://fat32.netlabs.org/
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/fat32/f32_0910.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/f32blank.zip

- Peter

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