Re: [Freedos-devel] ZEROFILL R2.01 Released (was ZEROFILL R2.00 Releas ed)

[Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel]

Hi Eric, hi all,

 

I am happy to inform you that Nikkho published version 2.0.5 of ZEROFILL.

It fixed a lot of minor bugs, among others it was unable to write more than 2 GB with FD and

if you delete the zerofile files it shows that they are deleted (in older versions you could not

see that it deleted files and you had the feeling that it crashed).

 

I tested it several times in virtual machines, and it works fine! With vmware you are even

able to mount a real existing HD and to write inside with zerofill! (Be careful, vmware does

not ask you for drive letters, but for HD numbers first, later for the partition that you want

to use - and vmware needs admin rights. Of course you need FAT32.)

Interestingly vmware was writing much faster than virtualbox. Even working with virtualbox

and vmdk was slower.

 

What most of you will overlook:

Zerofill is the FIRST FD tool that really handles a 2 TB formatted HD! Neither chkdsk nor dosfsck, defrag etc. do this till now!

So ZEROFILL is a milestone in supporting big HDs by FreeDOS. CONGRATULATIONS, Nikkho!

 

@ Jerome: Could you add zerofill 2.0.5 for update / install via fdnpkg /? Thx.

 

Willi / Fritz

 

 

Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:58 PM
From: "Eric Auer via Freedos-devel" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: "Eric Auer" <e.a...@jpberlin.de>
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] ZEROFILL R2.01 Released (was ZEROFILL R2.00 Releas ed)

Hi!

I hear that ZEROFILL does notice when drives are > 2047 MB
in EDR-DOS but not in FreeDOS, even when using FAT32 kernels?

Is there something in FAT32 interface use where ZEROFILL has
issues with FreeDOS, while working smoothly in EDR-DOS?

Details please :-) Willi only mentioned the general issue.

Eric




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