Some senseless babbling from Pierre Vandevenne to Mike Ruskai
on 26 Jan 96  18:28:15 about Cluster algorithm...

 PV> Hello,
 
 MR> This is the algorithm I'm using to determine a drive's cluster size based 
 MR> on its size:

 PV> Why don't you look at offset 0dh in the boot sector ?

Because I don't have a clue how to do that in REXX :)  Also because I need 
to determine what the cluster size WOULD be if a drive were formatted FAT, 
but is formatted HPFS.
 
 MR> I shrunk it down from 100MB with PartitionMagic (1.0), but I also 
 MR> reformatted the drive.

 PV> Partition Magic 2.0 has a cluster rsize option, just for the cases you
 PV> mentionned...

I'm aware of that.  I'm still not clear on what happens between 16MB and 
64MB.  By pure design, it ought to go from a 512 byte allocation unit 
(between 16MB and 32MB) to a 1024 byte AU (between 32MB and 64MB), then on 
to a 2048 byte AU, and so on.  But I still don't know off hand what it 
would actually be.  I suppose I could try to get one of the old PS/2's 
working to experiment.

Mike [Team OS/2]
mruskai{at}microfone.net


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