Re: FAT12 vs FAT16

Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch)
Mon, 25 Aug 1997 08:19:22 +0200 (MET DST)

Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Just because, in principle I can make a disk with one cluster and a 16-bit
> FAT, does not mean that it is a MS-DOS disk. MS-DOS will not understand
> such a disk so no other OS should bother with such a deviation either.

If all else fails, you can always use the fat=whatever mount option, so
you can at least access the disk if you know what's going on. Of course,
an incorrect auto-detection may still cause havoc.

- Werner

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