On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Trevin Beattie wrote:

> At 10:36 AM 6/4/2002 -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> >2) what about other file systems that have even stricter requirements
> >(like FAT file systems depend on the C/H/S settings of the underlying
> >device; change them and the fs strictly-speaking needs to be
> >re-formatted).
>
> They do??  There's another monkey wrench... I thought C/H/S was only used
> to convert a linear sector number to its 3-D coordinate for older drives.
> What part of FAT uses C/H/S?  (Other than the partition table, which isn't
> part of FAT anyway.)

FAT layout does not depend on C/H/S.

A.

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