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to: MIKE RUSKAI
from: Harald Pollack
date: 1999-11-12 08:10:06
subject: HPFS freespace bmp list

Am 06. Nov 99 07:20, schrieb MIKE RUSKAI (1:3603/140)
    an HARALD POLLACK:

Servus MIKE!

 MR> That wouldn't work at all.  That space is not necessarily 
 MR> contigous at all.

Ok, than it is not for a reference partition :-)

 MR> It can have two freespace bitmaps right in the middle of 
 MR> it, depending on the drive layout.

Maybe it is some reserved space for 'HotFix' (whatever this is in reality)

 MR> Furthermore, on a 10MB HPFS drive,

On such a drive, a reference partition is not possible.

 MR> that area is only 443 sectors, which is not enough for a PS/2 reference 
 MR> partition

That's also right

 MR> (which not very many PS/2's actually have - most use reference 
 MR> diskettes).

In principel, all PS/2 use reference DISKs, but (almost ?) all 95XX models do
so.

Herzliche Gruesse, Harald

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