Hi!
13-Мар-2004 15:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Lilly) wrote to ark:
JL> Attached is [misc.zip]
JL> File notes from Jim Lilly;
JL> RSLT_SR6 - ZIP100, FAT, BOOTFIX results
Looks valid and workable.
JL> RSLT_16 - ZIP100, FAT, BOOTFIX results
Looks like there is problems: OS says that FAT starts from sector 1,
whereas boot record says that FAT starts from sector 8. This may cause data
corruption if you will write into this drive.
Which OS you was use for tests? Which software you use to prepare
(format) these ZIP diskettes?
Also, disk geometry in boot record differs from one, reported by OS.
This is, probably, not very important (in given case), but who knows. Also,
as sayed by volume label, first disk (which is consistent) is from SPINRITE
package (or formated by SPINRITE :).
JL> RSLT_32 - ZIP100, FAT32, BOOTFIX results
Completely incorrect results: boot records says, that this is FAT32,
whereas OS says, that this is FAT16. Any file write should be dangerous.
Looks like this diskette was prepared by NT-family (XP?) - boot sector
mentions NTLDR.
JL> Bootsect32.BMP - ZIP100, FAT32, on screen error message, COPYBS C:
JL> bootsect
Let me quote:
______________O\_/_________________________________\_/O______________
[...]
A:>copybs C: btsec_16
A:>copybs C: btsec_32
ERROR: Filesystem not found on disk
_____________________________________________________________________
O/~\ /~\O
Error message looks valid.
JL> OddErrors.BMP - on screen goofy errors after I got (bootsect32.bmp)
JL> error.
______________O\_/_________________________________\_/O______________
String #127
String #127
String #127
String #127
String #127
String #127
String #120
String #121
String #123
String #124
A:\>dir /w /p |MORE
String #16
A:\>C:
A:\>dir /w /p
String #116
String #118
String #119
String #12
C:\>
_____________________________________________________________________
O/~\ /~\O
If you test this under FreeDOS, you should report this to Steffen Kaiser,
author of command.com.
JL> All tests done from bootup floppy disk, on ZIP100 seen as drive C:
JL> Unable to get BOOTSECT (COPYBS) for ZIP100 as FAT32, see Bootsect.bmp.
This is because file system here is incorrectly detected by OS.
JL> PC system info;
JL> Maxtor 80GB HDD on IDE3 (hpt370) NTFS, 3 partitions.
JL> ZIP100 on IDE2 as slave (which is why the ZIP100 gets seen as C: in
JL> tests)
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