Hi Keith!

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 PH>>> Now I tried to regain the ability to change the
 PH>>> HPFS-formatted media. I know very well (really :) that it's
 KT> Look for HPOFS, I believe it allows you to format removable drives as
 KT> an HPFS-type format. (It's an IFS for Os/2)
Of course you're right. But HPOFS was really designed for opticals - and a
Syquest (or Zip-drive, etc.) work rather like harddisks, in particular this
concerns their disk organisation formats. So HPFS provides by far the best
performance on those medias. HOPFS can't reach up to HPFS by design.

For future OS/2 releases I just wish Unix-style mounting, so HPFS can be
used on those removeable medias with the fully blown caching. The I/O
subsystem and IFS-interface need/have to supply control mechanisms on
unlocking/locking the physical device, flushing _all_ IFS-caches,
mounting/unmounting of IFS during runtime and ejecting the media.
After all my efforts I'm convinced it's up to IBM to provide this
functionality - I can't apply it to the system :)

To be honest, there is one last chance for a little more comfort for
changing the HPFS-formatted medias: according to Mike Bilow several
enhancements in LOCKDRV.FLT would provide sufficent lock/unlock
functionality along with DSK_REDTERMINEMEDIA.
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