> Am 16.01.2025 um 01:47 schrieb Eric Auer via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>: > > Crazy how we survived using FDISK before those TWENTY > critical and high importance fixes in version 1.4.0 :-o
To be fair, much of it was regarding edge cases or extensive usage. As long as you used it to create partitions once, and no other disk utility was involved, I think you were safe. However, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. So my policy on this is, if there is a possibility of a data loss, regardless of how likely it is, it should be classified as critical. > Does the FreeDOS installer still create 20 FAT16 drives if > your disk has 40+ GB, by the way? If yes, will the updated > FDISK make it easier to just create one FAT32 drive instead? The installer now creates a single FAT-16 partition by default with a maximum size of 2000 MB. > I wonder if there are better ways to autodetect LBA-fail BIOS. > The way in which Book8088 broke this was quite "creative" and > I hope no installer will use /X to just disable LBA by default. Maybe, but that does not prevent the case when broken BIOSes report LBA capabilities and do bad things on usage. I think for the Book8088 the workaround was to set DS to some specific value before the BIOS call. Generally it would require some sort of blacklist, I guess... Greetings, Bernd _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
