I ran freedos chkdsk and it said: "fat32 not currently supported" This was on FREEdos1.2. Also lchk said on line 16 of its report: "FAT32 compatible disk access disabled" This was on FREEdos1.2 running on 32 gig cf chip with an FAT32 format. I'm not happy with the word "disabled" Can you explain why it used the word "disabled"
cheers DS On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:10:28 -0600 Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi again, > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 2:09 PM Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> > wrote: > > > > I'm running FREEDOS 1.2 on a 32 gig cf chip which works > > just like an IDE harddrive. Only about 2 gigs of the chip is > > used, the rest is free space with a FAT 32 format. > > It could be some kind of obscure firmware bug. So maybe a flaw in > your > BIOS (HDD emulation of CF) or something specific to the CF itself. I > don't know, I can only guess. > > My Lenovo desktop (2011) was triple-booting for many years. My FAT32 > partition there was "only" 4 GB. I had no problems in FreeDOS. When > that hard disk started dying, I backed it up to (I think?) a 16 GB > Lexar jump drive. (I have an older 1 GB Kingston jump drive that > still > works perfectly, but that uses FAT16, which is inefficient.) I did > actually see some copy problems and errors (in FreeDOS: FreeCOM, > etc), > but I just halfway assumed it was a firmware bug and decided not to > mess with that jump drive for active use (only for rarely grabbing > backup files). > > It could also be a FreeCOM bug. Or something else entirely. Or some > combination of bugs. It could also be something to do with DOSLFN > (if > you have that loaded). I don't know, just stating the obvious here: > there's a lot of little pieces, and none of them are perfect. > > I did create (empty) FAT16 and FAT32 (.VHD) files for MetaDOS. Not > exhaustive, sizes can vary quite a bit, so there's a lot that can be > tested. So, in theory, some bugs should be reproducible, if anyone > wanted to try. I (barely) suspect that larger FAT32 drives haven't > been tested as much for FreeDOS, at least not exhaustively > (utilities > and whatnot). But it's also likely that the main bug here isn't in > FreeDOS. It's very hard to iron out every obscure bug, especially > with > so few testers and volunteers. FreeDOS works great but is not immune > to bugs. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ 74 Year Old Grandma Shocks Doctors: Forget Botox, Do This removethewrinkles.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5ddaec562912e6c55521cst02duc _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
