Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Re: formatting FAT32 hard disk partitions

2004-05-13 Thread Kurt Albershardt
--On Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:07 PM +0200 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Windows FORMAT only writes to the disk (wiping it) and relies on the BIOS to notice and report write errors. FreeDOS FORMAT wipes a small part of the disk, then checks if it worked, wipes the next part, and so on. You c

[Freedos-user] Re: Re: formatting FAT32 hard disk partitions

2004-05-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Kurt! > > Yes, the percentage did change, depends on what kind of hard disk you > > have. I've tried it take several hours (5 hours as I remember, my PC > > very slow) to format 40GB. > > So we have the 5 second quick format and the 5 hour surface scan format. > What is the Win9x format comma

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: formatting FAT32 hard disk partitions

2004-05-13 Thread Kurt Albershardt
--On Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:30 AM +0800 Johnson Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 15:28:18 -0700, Kurt wrote: Should the progress indicator show anything after 5-10 minutes? How long should I expect for a 40G or 80G volume? Yes, the percentage did change, depends on what kin

[Freedos-user] print command

2004-05-13 Thread Kovacs Alpar
Hi all, I have my freedos obtained with dosemu ver 1.2.0-1 and I can't find the print commnad. What I'm wrong?? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/76