Lpc2000

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "donhamilton2002" <hamilton@d...> wrote:
>
> --- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "wmwiese" <wmwiese@y...> wrote:
> 
> > As I recall, FAT32 disk partitions need a minimum 'disk' size of 
260MB
> > (that's MEGAbytes).  The old FAT12 is good for 'disks' up to about
> > 16MB;  I believe FAT16 is good for 16MB to around 2GB. 
> > 
> 
> This is one of those posts that I have to say something.
> 
> Bill you are wrong about your statments above.
> 
> I am not interested in educating the masses, but this is just wrong.
> 
> hamilton
>

I'm in agreement Hamilton, but will add my little bit to educate the 
masses since this is what user groups are for. The FAT type 12,16,32 
bit is determined by the count of clusters of the device. Nothing else. 
Get your hands on a copy of a microsoft document called "FAT:General 
Overview of On-Disk Format" this describes in detail the FAT system.

Doug