On 7/21/2023 2:01 PM, John Vella via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi,
I installed freedos on my IBM Thinkpad T43 and I installed a usb
driver, which works. Sort of.
I can access a 2gb usb stick, which is formatted to FAT32, and that's
great, but I want to use a different stick.
This is where the problems begin. It's a 128gb stick. If I find a way
to create a FAT32 partition to use the whole space do we know if
freedos would be able to handle that size? Or is there another file
system I could use?
No, you definitely can NOT use a different file system. FAT[12,16,32] is
the only file system that FreeDOS understands.
I had never had the need to use such large partitions with (any) DOS,
and don't use it for anything else, as it is limited to 4GB file size too.
Theoretically, FAT32 could handle up to 2TB in partition size, while
newer Windows (and some other OS) limit it to 32GB. Not sure if a peek
in the sources would reveal what a limitation under FreeDOS for FAT32
partitions would be...
Ralf
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