[Freedos-user] File corruption

2010-09-23 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, > .. how do you change the kernel from 16 to 32 bits? What I meant was, I replaced one file by the other, that's all. Marcos -- Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest C

[Freedos-user] Fwd: File corruption

2010-09-23 Thread cordata02
Sorry to sound dense but how do you change the kernel from 16 to 32 bits? Isn't there just one kernel and it works with a filesystem that is FAT16 or FAT32? Or are these kernels compiled with different memory models? Dave -Original Message- From: Marcos Favero Florence de Ba

[Freedos-user] File corruption

2010-09-23 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Tom, Here are the results you asked. Tests were done in a Compaq Armada E500. > is that reproducable with COPY/XCOPY ? Yes. I changed the kernel back to 16 bits and copied about 200 files with COPY and XCOPY. The errors appeared as before. I also decompressed some zip files, just to check

Re: [Freedos-user] file corruption

2010-09-23 Thread Tom Ehlert
>> Some older machines >> (e.g. this) require an specific cluster size in order >> to use LBA. > The BIOS doesn't know anything about cluster sizes. right (doesn't know and doesn't care) > Maybe you mean sector > sizes? Almost all floppy and hard disks have a sector size of 512 byte. > Expect pr

Re: [Freedos-user] file corruption

2010-09-23 Thread Christian Masloch
> Some older machines > (e.g. this) require an specific cluster size in order > to use LBA. The BIOS doesn't know anything about cluster sizes. Maybe you mean sector sizes? Almost all floppy and hard disks have a sector size of 512 byte. Expect problems with hardware, firmware and/or software

[Freedos-user] file corruption

2010-09-23 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi jassenna, > Please excuse me if I underestimate your knowledge. Don't worry about that. I'm just a user, so I'm not required to have extensive technical knowledge :-) > Are you sure the BIOS of your computers supports LBA > with the cluster size you choose? Some olde