I'm starting to think that part of the problem I was running is because
I was running dosfsck on 86Box -which (in this case) emulates a Pentium.
It worked reasonably quickly in VirtualBox.
I think that having a modern disk controller and newer CPU would help, yes.
But you would be moving real heads on a real disk and I'm not sure if
that would make things slower or not.
An emulator pretends to do the same, but actually reads from a file -so
disk reads are going to be faster. ...I think?
I guess the answer is: "it depends"
It does get confusing -but more ram, newer cpu and disks are usually
faster better than older ones.
-Random
On 8/16/2020 1:07 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
While I truly respect the terrific experiment people do here, when
relating to my own experiences I can get a bit confused.
The computer I am using to write this email, running the later
edition of ms dos I referenced has two hard drives split into four
partitions.
One drive is 40 gig the other is 20.
meaning I basically have two drive partitions at about 20 gig, and
two more at 10.
granted this machine has a great deal of memory, and was built by an
engineer, but still.
Perhaps being a p3 helps?
Kare
On Sun, 16 Aug 2020, Random Liegh via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi
It was dosfsck 2.11 DOS3, 8 Aug 2007; the version from FreeDOS RC3. I
was using it on a 12gb hard drive.
But this was in 86Box (emulating a Pentium 133 with 16mb of ram), so
the problem may have been with the emulator and not with the program.
It's very possible that I simply didn't wait long enough -it was
between 5 to 10 minutes.
I don't have a bare metal computer I can test it on right now, but if
it would help I wouldn't mind creating a 12gb VirtualBox machine and
trying it there.
Thanks!
On 8/16/2020 2:27 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi! Which version of dosfsck hangs for you,
how large are the drives (if possible also
in the unit clusters) and how much memory
do you have available? How long have you
waited - maybe it just took rather long?
You probably want to disable swapfiles in
your cwsdpmi or other dpmi configuration,
depending on which dpmi / dos ext you use.
Regards, Eric
> dosfsck appears to work on FAT32, though
> I've had it hang on very large (~10gb) drives.
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