I think more people might be interested ;) Imre ----- Original Message ----- From: "Imre Leber" <imre.le...@telenet.be> To: "Eric Auer" <e.a...@jpberlin.de> Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 7:38 PM Subject: Re: Fw: chkdsk checked
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Auer" <e.a...@jpberlin.de> > To: "Rugxulo" <rugx...@gmail.com> > Cc: "Imre Leber" <imre.le...@telenet.be>; <aitor...@gmail.com>; "Jim Hall" > <jh...@freedos.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 9:05 PM > Subject: Re: Fw: chkdsk checked > > >> >> Hi guys, >> >>> Blair, Eric, Mateusz, and Aitor are the only official... iBiblio >> >> Not me, but you are probably right about Aitor, Blair and Mateusz. >> > I would be responsible for it. I'll ask Jim when my hand is no longer > broken. > >>> P.S. Here's a dumb question (probably in the archives), what's new?? >> >> Chkdsk fixes a bug where it would fail for disks which have >> no subdirectories: >> >> www.freedos.org/bugzilla/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=1954 >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2462084&group_id=5109&atid=105109 >> >> (makes me wonder how to mark that bugzilla bug as fixed now) >> >> Not sure which bug got fixed in defrag. Candidates are: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2380982&group_id=5109&atid=105109 > > Was never a bug (see notes). Anyway i rearanged some code so it should > give only "disk read error" now when it can not read from the disk. This > still leaves room open for when defrag gets confused because the volume > was corrupt BEFORE the program was run. > > Also defrag is *fast*. It took 2 minutes for 1GB on my computer in bochs. > It used to be completely different once. > >> www.freedos.org/bugzilla/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=1963 (outdated??) > outdated > >> www.freedos.org/bugzilla/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=1964 >> > This one got fixed. > >> There was also an issue where chkdsk and maybe defrag would >> complain "file should have size [almost 4GB] but is [correct >> size rounded up to clusters]" but I do not know when this >> got fixed - maybe even in a previous version :-). >> > I tested it on varios media and could not reproduce. > >> Last but not least, I remember chkdsk once refused floppies >> of nonstandard sizes, for example 1.68 MB and 1.7 MB format. >> For that, too, I do not know when / if it got adjusted :-). >> > This i will probably test again. > >> Eric > Imre > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
