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   Message 757 of 3,371   
   Ilya Zakharevich to All   
   Re: formatting to FAT32   
   02 Apr 11 21:49:15   
   
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   From: Ilya Zakharevich    
      
   On 2011-04-02, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard  wrote:   
   > Ko stated that xe didn't know why this was happening. Here's a    
   > hypothesis that seems reasonable. The data that we have are these:   
      
   > * Raw access with DosRead/DosWrite/DosSetFilePtr works just fine on your    
   > ~4GiB FAT32 volume.   
      
   No.  We know that it does not work OK.  In my experience, it works OK   
   with 512 B reads, not with 64K reads (and IIRC, not even with 4K reads).   
      
   > * DosSetFilePtr() returns ERROR_SEEK on larger FAT32 volumes.   
   > * M. Ko reports that the FS_CHGFILEPTR function of the IFS isn't even    
   > being called in such circumstances.   
      
   Ilya   
      
   --- Internet Rex 2.31   
    * Origin: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. (1:261/20.999)   

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