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   Mike Gonta to Paul Edwards   
   Re: shortest FAT32   
   19 Mar 24 06:43:55   
   
   From: mikegonta@gmail.com   
      
   On 2024-03-19 1:26 a.m., Paul Edwards wrote:   
   > On 18/03/24 22:04, Mike Gonta wrote:   
   >   
   >> The trick I used was to mark the minimum FAT32 volume of 66602 outside   
   >> the 1.44 Mb as lost (0x0FFFFFF7) in the file allocation table.   
   >   
   > Very clever!   
   >   
   > BFN. Paul.   
   >   
   Probably not invented by me.   
   But, then again it was part of the solution to the "challenge" of   
   creating a 1.44MB FAT32 floppy disk.   
   It did however manage to "offend" a lot of people's lack of intelligence.   
   https://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=30339   
      
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