Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk for fat32!

2014-04-19 Thread Karen Lewellen
wait, this must be an only freedos issue? All of my large drives in dos use fat 32, and I have functional chkdsk. Kare On Wed, 16 Apr 2014, sparky4 wrote: Why dosn't chkdsk support fat 32 yet? i have an IBM XT that had FAT32 DRIVES AND i cannot check them for errors i have to pull it out

Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk for fat32!

2014-04-19 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: wait, this must be an only freedos issue? All of my large drives in dos use fat 32, and I have functional chkdsk. Where does your functional CHKDSK come from? I have FreeDOS multibooting on a box with Win2K and

Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk for fat32!

2014-04-19 Thread Karen Lewellen
I am running ms dos 7.1 ish, an augmented package which includes chkdsk and some other extra utilities. I am not running freedos at all, which is why i hinted it must be a problem specific to freedos, not to Dos itself. Kare On Sat, 19 Apr 2014, dmccunney wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at

Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk for fat32!

2014-04-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Note that this thread is about a PC-XT computer: In FreeDOS, only the 32-bit DOSFSCK supports FAT32. Our 16-bit CHKDSK does not. Yet only CHKDSK can run on the old PC-XT, which interestingly has an ISA IDE harddisk controller with LBA capable BIOS on it :-) The FAT32-enabled CHKDSK of Win9x

Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk for fat32!

2014-04-19 Thread Karen Lewellen
why? worked fine on the 486 I use to have. Gosh I have been running this package on my machines for years. On Sat, 19 Apr 2014, Eric Auer wrote: Hi! Note that this thread is about a PC-XT computer: In FreeDOS, only the 32-bit DOSFSCK supports FAT32. Our 16-bit CHKDSK does not. Yet only

Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk for fat32!

2014-04-19 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: why? worked fine on the 486 I use to have. Gosh I have been running this package on my machines for years. Er, 486 != XT hardware. I still have my original XT sitting on a shelf. It has a replacement motherboard

Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk for fat32!

2014-04-19 Thread Felix Miata
On 2014-04-19 13:01 (GMT-0400) dmccunney composed: Er, 486 != XT hardware. I still have my original XT sitting on a shelf. It has a replacement motherboard with a 10 *mhz* NEC V20 CPU, a Hercules graphics card, and two Seagate ST-225 20 *MB* MFM hard drives connected to an add-on

Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk for fat32!

2014-04-19 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2014-04-19 13:01 (GMT-0400) dmccunney composed: Er, 486 != XT hardware. I still have my original XT sitting on a shelf. It has a replacement motherboard with a 10 *mhz* NEC V20 CPU, a Hercules graphics card, and