** Reply to note from "Mark D. Overholser"
 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:38:20 -0800
>   
> Derek W. Keoughan wrote:
> >>  Can LS120 disks be formatted with HPFS?  If not what
filesystem does it use?
> > 
> > Reaching into the wayback time machine, I'm thinking that HPFS cannot be 
> > used on any form of removable media... LS120's are just 120MB floppy 
> > discs, probably FAT16 (since FAT12 would be limited to 32MB if I'm not 
> > mistaken).
> > 
> > ZIP, LS120, Syquest... all FAT formatted, IIRC.
> > 
> > No shortage of people to jump in to correct me - and I have an LS120 
> > disc here, but no drive, so I can't test my theory for you.
> > 
>   
> IIRC, the Zip and Jazz (and Castlewood Orb's) could be mounted as non 
removable device, thus could be formated HPFS..
>   

 Interesting though not much clearer.  On box in question LS120 is the A
drive, no floppy or floppy controller enabled.  LS120 is on the ide
cable.   The reason for HPFS is desire to place long file names on disk.  
Assuming I tried to format HPFS and failed, could I reformat back to
fat16?

 	Cal



 
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