Re: What about FORMAT?

Alain <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freedos.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Brian,
> 
> The 1% bad news is that I don't quite understand why it doesn't work.  I
> have done a byte-by-byte comparision of the FAT32 filesystem created by M$'s
> format and my format program and there isn't a difference...with the
> exception of the fact that the FreeDOS kernel works with my FAT32 file
> system implementation and M$ Win 98 doesn't.   :-(

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

>> 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...

Alain
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