hi David,

 DD> I remember from several years ago someone posting in one of the echo
 DD> mail conferences that he had written a set of utilities to allow him
 DD> to use HPFS with removable media, in the particular case floppy
 DD> disks.  I recall he in particular had written a routine to dis-mount
 DD> the floppy to correctly flush all buffers and caches and of course a
 DD> customized version of format to place HPFS structures on the floppy.
...
 DD> Does anyone here remember the package I am thinking of?  Has anyone
 DD> implemented this yet?

Albert J. Shan (70730.401{at}compuserve.com)'s SuperVirtualDisk package includes:

       -  HPFS formatting program for SVDisk.  Mounting and unmounting
          of HPFS onto SVDisks are supported.  HPFS diskette support
          (diskette imaging program such as Disk eXPress is required.)


Not real disks, but RAMdisks he wrote the device driver for...

regards,
         hugo