[Ham-Computers] RE: Not Write Protected

[Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)]

Just as a follow-up...

With FAT filesystems (16/32), there is a limit on the number of entries in
the ROOT directory as it can not be expanded/appended.  Sub-directories
generally have no limit to the number of entries as long as space is
available to expand/append the directory.  Actually, I believe there is a
limit,  but most people will never reach it.

  - Aaron, NN6O

-----Original Message-----
From: Duane Fischer, W8DBF [mailto:dfischer at usol.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 11:46 AM
To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Not Write Protected

	
Despite getting a write protect error, I discovered I had in reality hit the
maximum number of file limit. Which happens to be 263. There was over 17 Meg
free, but it made no difference. Once I removed a single file, it let me
write
to the disk. But not a second time! I ran into this on a 1.44 Meg diskette
too,
but the limit is about 126 aprox.	
	
Hence, this zip disk never was write protected. 	
	
Now it seems that once upon a time some zip disks did allow for manual write
protection, but that was changed to software protection only. I do not know
when
this took place, but somewhere around 1997-1998.	
	
Which explains why I remember my grandson figuring out what to do to write
protect one of these and why I can not find any means to do it on the disk
in
question. They be different!	
	
Duane W8DBF