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Some senseless babbling from Mario Semo to Mike Ruskai
on 11-02-99  08:11 about DosDevIOCtl()...

 MS> Hallo MIKE!

 MS> Antwort auf eine Message von MIKE RUSKAI an JONATHAN DE BOYNE
POLLARD:

 MR> So, I put the drive into sector mode (using what Vitus posted),
which
 MR> makes things much simpler.

 MR> After poking around, I've run into a strange situation, which you
can
 MR> read about in a post entitled "HPFS freespace bmp list".

 MS> Just a note. at the 2nd and 3rd COLOROS2 (1994,1995) (OS2 Develop
 MS> Conferences) the IBM HPFS developer (Doug Azzarito) had sessions
with
 MS> informations on HPFS low level layouts. (e.g. about the superblock
 MS> etc).
 MS> Maybe you find the conference proceedings (printed sessions)
somewhere
 MS> on the net?

[snip]

There doesn't seem to be any info on previous conferences on that page.
Regardless, I probably already have the same information from the EDM/2
site, which covered all the file system structures (just didn't mention
unreachable space at the end of the drive).

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com

... After seeing Windows I realized Bill Gates is an idiot.

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