On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, rad0 wrote: *>thanks peter, *> *>I have found a 'white' paper on the fat system. It doesn't seem *>to correspond to msdos 5.0, it's dated dec 2000, but I get the idea now *> *>looks like this is doable on a small scale. I forgot to mention that by 'sectors' I meant allocation units. Which are whatever size the disk can be partitioned into. Could be 64kbytes. But the disk reads and writes proper are still in sectors, not in allocation units. Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.