Re: Beta vs. Stable

"Brian E. Reifsnyder" <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Nov 2002 22:56:56 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.freedos.devel,gmane.spam.detected
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,


> 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?

I really don't know.  But I have been able to reproduce the problem with my
machine.

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

Yes.  But, there may be a slight incompatibility between the FAT32 file
system it creates and the one created by M$.  Don't ask me why because I am
not sure yet.