--- "Don{ald} O. Woodall"  wrote:

> 
> In , on
> 12/28/2004 
>    at 10:36 PM, Franklin  said:
> 
> Franklin
> 
> >> 
> >> Franklin wrote: then found out that ECS IDs a bootable
> >> >primary volume as FAT16!
> >> >
> >> Have never seen that here!
> 
> >This has happened many times to me. I use LVM to create a large
> bootable
> >compatable primary partition, it sets it up as FAT16. Windows
> formats it
> >at fat16, then complains it isn't gonna work. It's really amazing it
> will
> >format all 39 gigs, then scandisk will say the size doesn't match.
> 
> >Franklin
> 
>      You do realize that a FAT16 partition can not exceed 2GB's,
> don't
> you?  That is the max size the FAT16 file system can deal with.

Yes I do. However, after creating the partition with LVM, I guess the
format.com that came on win98se doesn't know that. It spent the full
15-20 minutes formatting 39 gigs, asked for a volume name, reported the
correct size of the partition. Then when I rebooted, I just got an
error from scandisk that the bios was incorrect and/or there was a size
error in the FAT. On the LVM list it showed the file system as FAT16
for the 39 gig partition.

Franklin


		
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