Re: Beta vs. Stable

Aitor Santamaria Merino <[email protected]> Sat, 09 Nov 2002 03:40:55 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.freedos.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

>>b) FORMAT not correctly working on HDs (I don't know about the status of
>>this, but I seem to recall that it may be ok except for some occasional
>>problems?)
>>
>
>There is a problem with performing an unconditional format.
>
In ALL the machines, in some?

>> (a)  SCANDISK, CHKDSK or some other (16-bit) disk checking tool, as I
>> consider this to be a "legacy" feature of any DOS

>
> Probably would be a good idea.  I believe someone is working on this right
> now.

Perhaps it's also a good idea for it to be FAT32 capable too....

>>(b)  If a kernel FAT32 capable is offered, I would expect that FDISK is
>>also FAT32 capable
>>
>
>FDISK has been FAT32 capable even before LBA support was added to it.  It
>just needs configured to support FAT32.
>
Sorry! I thought it was just unimplemented.
By the way, is FORMAT FAT32-capable?

Aitor