Some senseless babbling from Harald Pollack to Mike Ruskai
on 11-12-99  08:10 about HPFS freespace bmp list...

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

 HP> Servus MIKE!
 
 MR> That wouldn't work at all.  That space is not necessarily 
 MR> contigous at all.

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

No, and I've still not found an answer.

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

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

No, the location and count of hotfix sectors are well-defined.  There are
always 100, and they're always at the beginning of the drive.

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

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

I've never used a PS/2 as new as that :)

Mike Ruskai
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