[Freedos-devel] Format problem

2005-11-24 Thread Alain
First of all, let me say that I love the SERIOUSLY option!! But I found a problem formating floppies: If the user aborts formating using , the disk becomes invalid (that's normal) and after that the same floppy cannot be formated again, there is the classical Abort/Retry/Fail and hitting Fail

Re: [Freedos-devel] FORMAT problem

2004-08-29 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:32:03 -0400, you wrote: Hi Uso, >Ah yeah... I've heard of them. There's actually, I think, a customized >version of FreeDOS for the PC98 series, called FreeDOS(98). I've used >it a little in emulation. Where you find the source of FreeDOS(98)? I want to take a look. T

Re: [Freedos-devel] FORMAT problem

2004-08-27 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Johnson Lam wrote: I work for PC hardware since IBM PC was born. I learn too much program incompatible to some kind of hardware (especially Japan PC-9801 series). So being a programmer is tough. Ah yeah... I've heard of them. There's actually, I think, a customized version of FreeDOS for the PC98

Re: [Freedos-devel] FORMAT problem

2004-08-27 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:56:08 +0300, you wrote: Hi Lucho, >So BIOS uses some CHS translation mechanism here. What BIOS >brand/version/date you have? Acer Altos 300B (fade out model, 233MHz) I picked up our customer throw away PC for FreeDOS testing, it's USB totally sucks, almost all drivers fai

Re: [Freedos-devel] FORMAT problem

2004-08-27 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
# of Cylinders__:6296 6296 787 # of Heads__: 1616 128 # of Sectors/Track__: 636363 So BIOS uses some CHS translation mechanism here. What BIOS brand/version/date you have? LBA support Yes 3098.8MB of LBA addressable 3098.8MB in CHS mode What a pity that your BIOS ca

[Freedos-devel] FORMAT problem

2004-08-26 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, I found an old program which can display IDE's information. But no information who code it. I think it can be distributed. http://johnson.tmfc.net/file/ide.exe I hope the information can help to trouble shoot the format problem. Here's result of my office's SEAGATE hard disk: = DRIVE 1