On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Trevin Beattie wrote:

> At 10:36 AM 6/4/2002 -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
> They do??  There's another monkey wrench... I thought C/H/S was only used
> to convert a linear sector number to its 3-D coordinate for older drives.
> What part of FAT uses C/H/S?  (Other than the partition table, which isn't
> part of FAT anyway.)

I'm not sure of the specifics, but I have encountered the problem. It's
also been discussed in the past on this list. :-)

> If it will help, I think I have a spare 640MB MO disk I can use to format
> with M$-Windows and see how it gets laid out.  (I also have a DVD-RAM
> formatted under Windows, but that used a special driver with the UDF file
> system.)

It probably would, but I don't know enough about FAT to be able to help.

Take care,

Bill