P3D Re: cluster size -WARNING - PRE D3D techie talk...

[Dan Shelley <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sid Herbage wrote:
> 
> At 04:19 PM 3/31/98 -0700, Ron Labbe wrote:
> 
> >>NTFS formatted drives are only accesible from NT. You can not access data
> >>on a drive formatted this way with Win95, OS/2 or DOS.
> >>
> >
> >That is not true...
> >I have a Win 95 computer networked to an NT computer and each can access
> >ALL of the other's files...
> 
> The original message was slightly misleading. Although it's true that an NT
> drive, formatted NTFS is not accessible from Win95, DOS et al, NT
> doesn't *have* to be installed as NTFS. Optionally it can be installed as
> FAT16
> in which case it can be seen from a FAT16 system.
> 
> I have DOS/win31, Win95 and WinNT installed in 3 independent partitions
> handled by a boot manager, and I specifically installed NT (and win95 OSR2
> come to that .... it could be installed as FAT32) as FAT 16 so that each can
> talk to the others' partitions.

As I said there is more... Volumes in fact... If your NT drive is
strictly NTFS, it will not be accessible from the other operating
systems. As Sid said, you can even have multiple operating systems on
the same drive.

Anyway, enough of that in P3D. In fact, would you believe that I think
this discussion could easily push the limits of the purpose of SD3D? ;-)

Dan Shelley
dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan


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