Tim wrote:
Ian Malone:
Alternatively they could just revert to 8.3 support for files, it
wouldn't affect usb key applications as windows is handling the file
system then (but it's a blow to interoperability, USB keys wouldn't
work between Win and Mac or Linux).
Tim:
They're just a storage medium, so they use what's put on them. It's up
to the computers using them as to how. We don't have "FAT" hard drives,
CDs, etc. We simply have drive and discs.
Mike McCarty:
This is untrue. Many discs and pseudo-discs come pre-formatted.
Some do, some don't. That doesn't mean that they're a FAT disk, it's
just a disk with an obese filesystem on it. You're, generally, not
prevented from reformatting them, either.
Certainly true. I wasn't trying to imply otherwise. However,
the reason I wrote that is that I believe that MicroSoft is
trying to get money from people producing preformatted discs
and pseudo-discs. That certainly seems to be the case from
perusing their website.
An IDE HDD is not a Windows IDE HDD, it's an IDE HDD that can be used on
a variety of different PCs. The same goes for floppies, USB disks, etc.
Or non-PCs. Or anything else. But if it has LFNs put on it
on top of a FAT, it looks like whoever put that on there
may have to pay a royalty to MicroSoft.
Mike
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