Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK 133

[Ralf Quint]

On 2/14/2021 6:55 AM, Eric Auer wrote:

Hi!


FDISK 1.3.2 would not find volume labels, if the partition doesn't
start on a cylinder boundary. fixed in www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/fdisk133.zip

BUT: at least in my environment, the most recent FORMAT91W is not able
to format logical partitions, but aborts with error.

According to Fritz Mueller, this is error 61, which means
that truename (int 21, ax=0x6000) returns carry flag set
for truename("X:\") with X being the target drive letter.
You can see verbose FORMAT error status with FORMAT /D :-)

He also reports the following problem: Take some real or
virtual harddisk and create an 1500 MB extended partition.

Now create one 800 MB and one 700 MB logical partition in
that. FDISK tells that you still have 4 MB left. If you
allow it to create a partition there, too, it suddenly
tells you that only the 800 MB and 4 MB partitions exist.

When you restart FDISK later (I haven not asked whether
he rebooted betwen both runs) it does show all 3 logical
partitions, but it remains a bit odd that 800+700+4=1500.

I haven't looked at the sources yet, but I am pretty sure that this is 
an issue of FDISK working on full cylinder levels and those "even (human 
readable)" numbers of 1500, 800 and 700 are not falling on full 
cylinders for the given drive geometry.

At least that is how FDISK (and FORMAT for that matter) used to work...

Ralf


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Re: [Freedos-devel] Bloček Update

[TK Chia]

Hello Jerome,


I downloaded the latest version and attempted to use it in DOSBox. However, 
running its executable it simply hesitated and returned to the command prompt. 
As someone who doesn’t use the program, I don’t know if it was a compatibility, 
configuration issue or what was the problem.


I am not sure what the problem is exactly either, but the program does
run if the working directory happens to contain the fonts that the user
interface needs (under PROGS\BLOCEK\FONTY).  But one should not have to
do this.

(Also, if I run the program twice in a row --- start it, exit it, then
start it again --- in dosemu2, dosemu2 starts to weird out:

  ERROR: mprotect() failed: Cannot allocate memory
  ERROR: mprotect() failed: Cannot allocate memory
  ERROR: mprotect() failed: Cannot allocate memory
  ERROR: mprotect() failed: Cannot allocate memory

I have no idea if these two issues are related.)

Thank you!

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Bloček Update

[thraex]

On 14.02.2021 17:47, Jerome Shidel wrote:
> (also posted to freedos-user)
> 
> Hi All,

Hey Jerome,

> I downloaded the latest version and attempted to use it in DOSBox.
> However, running its executable it simply hesitated and returned to the
> command prompt. As someone who doesn’t use the program, I don’t know if
> it was a compatibility, configuration issue or what was the problem.

Same here, I tried to test the translations but Bloček didn't run on DOSBox.
> 
> I’m hoping one of you are familiar with the program and would like to
> provide an updated package for it. 
> 
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/pkg-html/blocek.html
> 
> :-)

I would advise to wait a bit to avoid duplicate work: I stupidly left my
translations in UTF-8 format (French & Turkish). So I need to convert
them to correct code pages, and I would also like to review them before
pinging Laaca, Bloček's author. I hope to be able to do that this
evening or tomorrow. He will then probably release a new version, at
least for the data files. I'll keep the list updated.

Sorry for fuzz.


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[Freedos-devel] Bloček Update

[Jerome Shidel]

(also posted to freedos-user)

Hi All,

The current version of Bloček on the FreeDOS repo and install media is 1.4. 
Recently, it received another update. It is now up to version 1.62. Looking at 
its history, it has had numerous fixes and features added since out last 
version. 

I downloaded the latest version and attempted to use it in DOSBox. However, 
running its executable it simply hesitated and returned to the command prompt. 
As someone who doesn’t use the program, I don’t know if it was a compatibility, 
configuration issue or what was the problem.

I’m hoping one of you are familiar with the program and would like to provide 
an updated package for it. 

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/pkg-html/blocek.html
 


:-)

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Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK 133

[Eric Auer]

Hi!

> FDISK 1.3.2 would not find volume labels, if the partition doesn't
> start on a cylinder boundary. fixed in 
> www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/fdisk133.zip
> 
> BUT: at least in my environment, the most recent FORMAT91W is not able
> to format logical partitions, but aborts with error.

According to Fritz Mueller, this is error 61, which means
that truename (int 21, ax=0x6000) returns carry flag set
for truename("X:\") with X being the target drive letter.
You can see verbose FORMAT error status with FORMAT /D :-)

He also reports the following problem: Take some real or
virtual harddisk and create an 1500 MB extended partition.

Now create one 800 MB and one 700 MB logical partition in
that. FDISK tells that you still have 4 MB left. If you
allow it to create a partition there, too, it suddenly
tells you that only the 800 MB and 4 MB partitions exist.

When you restart FDISK later (I haven not asked whether
he rebooted betwen both runs) it does show all 3 logical
partitions, but it remains a bit odd that 800+700+4=1500.

Regards, Eric



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