I thought I made it clear and easily reproducible for anyone concerned enough to look into the issue.
Current shipping kernels 2042, not modified nor recompiled. FreeDOS LiveCD 1.3-RC3 (Kernel386) FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 x86-Floppy Edition (Kernel86) Issue occurred on real hardware, but is easily reproducible using VirtualBox (latest 6.1) All other data can be easily gathered by whoever is interested. > On Jun 6, 2020, at 6:29 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > > let me summarize: You can fdisk, format and use 100 GB FAT32 LBA > partitions using a certain (which?) version of a non-8086, e.g. > 386 optimized kernel of FreeDOS. However, doing the same on some > (which?) kernel which is trying to support 8086, you fail to use > FORMAT on said, probably FAT32 LBA, partition? I assume you did > use an 8086 kernel with FAT32 support compiled in? If not, you > should have gotten a warning from FDISK that FAT32 partitions > are not supported by that kernel. > >> Boot LiveCD (Kernel386), run FDISK create 100Gb, partition, >> reboot, format, All is good. Boot Floppy Edition, >> dir C:, invalid drive. > > What does the floppy (8086 compatible) edition kernel say at boot? > >> Boot Floppy Edition (Kernel86), run FDISK create 502mb, partition, >> reboot, format, all is good. A-Ok. > > FAT16 or FAT32? LBA or CHS? > >> So, I guess it is either be design that larger partitions do not >> work on the 16bit kernel or a bug somewhere in the kernel, fdisk, >> format chain. > > You need to be A LOT more specific about the context of the problem. > At least do mention the version numbers of kernel, fdisk and format! > > Eric > > PS: Please report WHICHFAT C: and WHICHFAT output for all kernels: > http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/specials/whichfat.zip > > PPS: Thanks for the mirroring! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
