I have gotten that critical error so often that I have abandoned FreeDOS format. It happens most often on previously unformatted diskettes or on 720kb diskettes.
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:55 AM, John Hupp <[email protected]> wrote: > In the thread "Drivers or tips for 3 ISA sound cards?" I just reported > solving a problem with a driver installer that froze when it arrived at > the step where it analyzes the hardware configuration. It turned out > that it was choking on the fact that D: and E: partitions existed but > were not yet formatted. The installer worked fine once I formatted the > partitions. > > I then wondered if that same circumstance played into another quirk I > had observed. I had been unable to make this work on this machine: > > format a: /u > > That always produced an error. My notes are a bit scattered, and I'm > not 100% sure that this is the error connected to that command, but I > think it was: > > Critical error during DOS disk access > DOS driver error (hex): 01 > Description: unknown unit for driver > Program terminated > [Error 129] > > But after formatting the two partitions, "format a: /u" seems to work fine. > > This was not a fully controlled test, and I'd like to have the > opportunity/time to test it more definitively, but I'm reporting this to > see if anyone else can confirm or deny the behavior. This is a default > FreeDOS 1.1 installation on a Pentium 150, 64MB configuration. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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