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2007 Mar 21
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Dir_FstClusHi being used for FAT16/12 fs types
Hi,
I just found syslinux gives corrupt data when reading files from a
FAT16 partition. The fat16 implementation was using the reserved
Dir_FstClusHi (offset 20 in the directory entry, name quoted from VFAT
spec from Microsoft) which is supposed to be 0 for FAT12 and FAT16.
Linux ignores this and never uses the Dir_FstClusHi cluster with 0 for
FAT16/12, so it works fine.
>From the spec:
DIR_FstClusHI: High word of this entry's first clus...