Hello FreeDOS people, I want to share some information about the progress I made on updating Ranish Partition Manager for >8Gb disk support. As of version 2.90.13 I am at a stage where I have implemented all features I set out to do for the partition manager sub-component PART.EXE.
In the next time I will shift the focus to bug hunting and the boot loader and boot manager components. While this is alpha quality software I would be happy to get some feedback from the community to find and eliminate the (hopefully not so many) bugs, as I am not able to test it with many System / BIOS combinations (do not use it on a production system). The software can be downloaded from: https://codeberg.org/boeckmann/ranish/releases Here is a summary of the things I already did: * Ported to Open Watcom C and Netwide Assembler (with the help of user ecm of bttr forum). * Implemented LBA disk access for partition manager PART.EXE using extended INT 13H functions. * Enabled the partition manager to handle partitions of up to 2 TiB in size. * Re-implemented formatting of FAT-12/16/32 filesystems, hopefully in conformance with Microsoft FAT implementations. * Adding code to hold the volume label files in sync with the corresponding boot record labels. * Automatically set LBA / non-LBA partitions types for FAT and extended partitions. * Modified GUI to handle larger sector numbers. * Usual bug fixing (see CHANGELOG.MD) for details. What still has to be done: * The IPLs and advanced boot manager have to be LBA-enabled. * Overhaul command line interface. * Minor GUI clean up. * Bringing documentation up to date. * Make some partitioning (video) tutorials?!? What (I) will propably not do: * A major overhaul of the user interface and the "strange" editing of extended partitions. * Like the original version it is still restricted to sector sizes of 512 bytes, and this propably will not change. Finally I would like to thank Fritz Müller for the testing. Greetings, Bernd _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
