On 6/2/2015 10:55 AM, John Hupp 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.
I'm working with a different machine now, with a single formatted partition -- no unformatted partitions -- and I still see this behavior regularly but not uniformly. When this occurs with a given floppy, I can take the same disk, pop it into a Win 98 machine, and format it without error. I have now filed a bug report on the problem at https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/132/. Some of you may be able to contribute more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
