Re: [9fans] the old floppy set

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:26, erik quanstrom<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > i don't know
> > what versions of fat 2e supported, but i would imagine restricting
> > oneself to fat16 (and not fat16 lba) would be safest.
>
> i used fat16, i think lba. i figured plan 9 would be smart enough to
> deal with lba and large disks, but wikipedia tells me that 1995 was
> sort of a chs-lba transition period, so perhaps i was wrong. i won't
> be able to experiment with chs on the laptop as it has a large disk
> with freebsd filling it except for the very end

even the current 9load won't deal with fat16 lba or fat32 lba.
9load-e820 does, though.

- erik