Re: [Freedos-user] Annoying 'Run chkdsk: Bad I/O ..' messages on FreeDos boot

[Eddie Anderson]

"Jan van Wijk" ecomstat...@dfsee.com wrote:

> Message: 1
> I have seen this problems numerous times over the last 10 years,
> starting with the 1.0 kernel, then the 1.1, and I now just verified that
> it still happens with the kernel that is in the 1.2 RC1 release.
>
>
> Description of the problem symptoms:
>
>
> On booting FreeDOS, AFTER processing config.sys and at least
> after a part of the stuff in AUTOEXEC.BAT, it may happen that
> error messages scroll by, relatively fast, and for a long time:
>
>  Run chkdsk: Bad FAT I/O: 0x0001
>
> The message is repeated at least a dozen times, then the sector/block number
> is incremented and another bunch or errors is repeated.
>
Thanks for your detailed description of this problem, its cause, and 
some circumventions. I have stored it for future reference.

I don't remember if I have encountered this particular problem; but 
I have had to patch boot sectors after using mkdosfs (due to missing 
boot code) or incompatible BPBs when repairing or constructing image 
files.

Sorry for my delayed response.  Because of the way sourceforge 
handles digests, I didn't receive the digest containing your post 
until more than two weeks after you sent it.


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Re: [Freedos-user] Would someone help me with my subscription ?

[Eddie Anderson]

Jose Antonio Senna wrote:


  I received this message, which seems genuine:


From: "SourceForge.net"



Subject: Important Account Information - Reconfirm Mailing List Subscriptions



Thanks for being a SourceForge user. Our records indicate that
you are  subscribed to the following project mailing lists:

freedos-devel
freedos-user

We are contacting you to confirm you are still interested in
receiving emails from these SourceForge project lists.
If you do not confirm your subscriptions by June 29th,
you will be unsubscribed from the above mailing lists.
Please click here to confirm your subscriptions:


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...


   I followed the link,  filled the subscription confirmation form
  on the page and submitted it,  then receivng the apge back
  with the remark:


  Form security (reCAPTCHA) missing, please submit again


   Nowhere on the original page there was a captcha field.

  This looks like another contrivance to keep out users of old browsers.
  ( I am using Firefox 2.0.20 for Windows98)

  Would someone with admin clearance in these lists
please keep me subscribed ?


To Jim Hall:

How many subscribers does each Freedos mailing list have 
now?  It might be interesting to see if the number of 
subscribers drops significantly after SourceForge finishes 
this process.



To all:

Why would a mailing list require its subscribers to use a 
web browser?  Shouldn't an email client be sufficient? After 
all, people have been using mailing lists since before web 
browsers (or the world wide web) existed.



And why do I have to "reconfirm"?

Years ago I sent an email in which I asked to subscribe. I 
received an email which asked me to confirm my request (by 
replying to that email). I sent a reply to that email.  Then 
I received another email which welcomed me to the mailing list.


Wasn't that enough?


If the day comes when I want to unsubscribe, I will.  I 
assume that most, if not all, subscribers are equally 
capable of stopping their subscriptions if they want to.


But what if something goes`wrong?  Okay, imagine this scenario:

I stop accessing my email account (due to loss of Internet 
access, change of ISP, my email provider stops providing 
service in my country, death, etc.).


If that happens, then, for awhile, Freedos emails would 
uselessly accumulate in my email account's Inbox.  That's a 
waste of bandwidth (more wasteful than the recent flood?), 
but it won't last forever because...


Presumably, my email provider will eventually suspend and/or 
delete my email account due to inactivity (i.e. me not 
retrieving my email anymore).


After that happens, SourceForge will start getting a bounce 
msg each time that they attempt to send a Freedos email to 
my defunct email account.


At that point, SourceForge can justifiably (and 
unilaterally) unsubscribe my email account from the Freedos 
mailing lists.


What's wrong with that process?  Haven't mailing lists 
worked that way for decades?




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Re: [Freedos-user] Annoyi

[EDDIE ANDERSON]

From: Eddie Anderson <saywha...@gmail.com>


"Jan van Wijk" ecomstat...@dfsee.com wrote:

> Message: 1
> I have seen this problems numerous times over the last 10 years,
> starting with the 1.0 kernel, then the 1.1, and I now just verified that
> it still happens with the kernel that is in the 1.2 RC1 release.
>
>
> Description of the problem symptoms:
>
>
> On booting FreeDOS, AFTER processing config.sys and at least
> after a part of the stuff in AUTOEXEC.BAT, it may happen that
> error messages scroll by, relatively fast, and for a long time:
>
>  Run chkdsk: Bad FAT I/O: 0x0001
>
> The message is repeated at least a dozen times, then the sector/block number
> is incremented and another bunch or errors is repeated.
>
Thanks for your detailed description of this problem, its cause, and
some circumventions. I have stored it for future reference.

I don't remember if I have encountered this particular problem; but
I have had to patch boot sectors after using mkdosfs (due to missing
boot code) or incompatible BPBs when repairing or constructing image
files.

Sorry for my delayed response.  Because of the way sourceforge
handles digests, I didn't receive the digest containing your post
until more than two weeks after you sent it.


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