FreeDOS (kernel=2038fat16, freecom=082pl3) reports a wrong (about 10% actual) size for a EMS ramdisk created with Frank Uberto FU_RD v.19i. Running CHKDSK on this disk reports a large number of lost chains. After some use, the dir command returns garbage, albeit the files put in are still there and can be accessed by their names. Use of JemmEX or JEMM386+HIMEM to provide EMS does not make any difference. I think this is not a bug in EMSDSK, for I did use it almost daily for about one year under DRDOS 5.0 without a glitch and, while my tests under MSDOS 5.0 were much more limited, there has been so far no problem, too. FreeDOS kernel 2036 did not yet show the dir problem, but the wrong size and CHKDSK reports are present. XMSDSK does not seem to have any problem. Their documentation says both have just one FAT. I set them with same size and number of sectors/cluster.
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