Ha, I did not know that the FAT16 support was coming from the hard disk
driver ! I used AHDI 5.0 in my test.
According to the Table in 4.9.1, in
http://info-coach.fr/atari/documents/_mydoc/Atari_HD_File_Sytem_Reference_Guide_v1.1b.pdf
all other hard disk drivers can also access FAT16 partitions < 32 MB.
I don't know if the other drivers would *create* FAT12 partitions in any
case, but since the above guide never talks about FAT12, I would be
suprised if they did.
Do we still care about hard disks that have been formatted with native
Atari SW, when user can
mount them in a PC emulator like Hatari, copy
files to safety and re-format the disk?
Personally I don't mind that much about which tool formatted the hard
disk, I was only pondering if we need code in the kernel to treat
smaller partitions as FAT12, when these partitions are created as FAT16
on the Atari side.