Re: What about FORMAT?

Alain <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freedos.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Brian,

> > Have you tested it with Norton Disk Doctor? If you don't have it, I can
> > send you a DOS version that accepts fat32.
> Thanks, but I already have a version that handles that.

Does it give you any clue? does it accept you partition as ok?

> > >> Maybe what we can do is just get the surface scan procedure that
> Andreas
> > >> is working on and make it into a lib for both programs?
> > > Excellent idea.  How far along is this surface scanning code?
> > I just asked him...
> What was his reply?

I just got his reply: he said this is one part that is not written :(
But he probably has the part that translates sectors->clusters>fat
and so it must not be too difficult. (a long time ago I have written a surface
scan for floppy, and I remember that it was much more trouble testing that 
writing)

Alain
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