FAT12 on 1.44 MB Floppy Images: Layout, Metadata, and a Linux Walkthrough
FAT12 on 1.44 MB media organizes space using clusters (allocation units), which are made of one or more sectors; sectors are the smallest addressable blocks. A standard 3.5" floppy uses 80 cylinders × 2 heads × 18 sectors per track × 512 bytes per sector = 2880 sectors (1,474,560 bytes). Logica...