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Some senseless babbling from Harald Pollack to Mike Ruskai
on 11-02-99  09:08 about HPFS freespace bmp list...

 HP> Am 24. Oct 99 22:11, schrieb MIKE RUSKAI (1:3603/140)
 HP> an DARIN MCBRIDE:

 HP> Servus MIKE!

 MR> Well, it seems that the discrepancy is universal.  I found
 MR> that the sectors in question were the first 4096 of the last 4100
sectors
 MR> on the drive (the last four sectors being the last freespace bitmap
on the
 MR>  drive).

 HP> Maybe that space is reserved for a 'Reference Partition' on some
IBM
 HP> PS/2 machines. I have made the experience, that creating a
reference
 HP> partition on a (already partitioned) drive which has a HPFS
partition
 HP> as its last one, will work without destroying any data.

That wouldn't work at all.  That space is not necessarily contigous at
all.
It can have two freespace bitmaps right in the middle of it, depending
on
the drive layout.

Furthermore, on a 10MB HPFS drive, that area is only 443 sectors, which
is
not enough for a PS/2 reference partition (which not very many PS/2's
actually have - most use reference diskettes).

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com

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