Re: Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: SCANDISK vs DOSFSCK

2004-03-31 Thread Eric Auer
> > Hi, dosdosfsck-2.8-fat32 does work for FAT32 for me. > IIRC it has bugs in the fat check/recover logic. Something about getting > into a loop and something else about destrying Long Names. My 2.8-fat32 port only contains disk READ functions but should be compatible to non-FAT32 kernels. Yes,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: SCANDISK vs DOSFSCK

2004-03-30 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
I agree with Alain. DOSFSCK 2.10 with fixed >2G bug will be the easiest and the best solution. Lucho --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technol

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: SCANDISK vs DOSFSCK

2004-03-30 Thread Alain
Hi, The problem about all this discussion is that it is talking about DOSFSCK as if it has to be rewritten an debugged all over. That is not tha case. It is a _functional_program_ , it's kernel has no more known bugs (for what I remember). So if this missing function is added, very little testi

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: SCANDISK vs DOSFSCK

2004-03-30 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
DOS 6.2x's scandisk runs on a Tandy 1000 HX, that's an 8086. But it doesn't support FAT32 ;-) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Le

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: SCANDISK vs DOSFSCK

2004-03-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze schreef: DOS 6.2x's scandisk runs on a Tandy 1000 HX, that's an 8086. then it means CHKDSK/SCANDISK are intended for FAT12/FAT16 and DOSFSCK also does FAT32, I guess. unless someone manages to get CHKDSK/SCANDISK supporting FAT32 :) Bernd

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: SCANDISK vs DOSFSCK

2004-03-30 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Bernd Blaauw wrote: who knows if MS scandisk runs on <386 ? that's our specification after all. DOS 6.2x's scandisk runs on a Tandy 1000 HX, that's an 8086. -uso. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial p

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: SCANDISK vs DOSFSCK

2004-03-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: Hi, dosdosfsck-2.8-fat32 does work for FAT32 for me. The problem with then what was the disadvantage of using/providing 2.8? I seem to recall 2.10 was really wanted, so diagnosis of FORMAT could be done in a better way. About SCANDISK: Scandisk should be something with an intera