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- Fri Dec 14, 2012 2:47 pm
- Forum: Beginning OS Development
- Topic: compute next cluster
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Re: compute next cluster
Hi !! I think I Get The Idea !!
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- Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:37 pm
- Forum: Beginning OS Development
- Topic: compute next cluster
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Re: compute next cluster
Thats an implementation detail of FAT12. In FAT12, each cluster pointer is 12 bits long, but stored in a packed format. Therefore, we get the index which we are looking for, multiply it by 8 to get it in terms of bytes, then multiply by 3/2 to get in terms of 12bits per entry. Then we have the loca...