[...] SpinRite which uses FreeDOS incorrectly
'claims' to have successfully formatted such FAT32 ZIP-100 disks.....yet fail to boot. THAT is the focal point of troubles with FreeDOS I'm having.
SpinRite uses FreeDOS for it's formatting functions. Under WinXP Pro, a ZIP-100 (incorrectly) formatted as FAT32 is NOT getting correctly formatted.
Shouldn't it (SR/FreeDOS) give an error message about incorrect file format/
bad bootsector? It does IF the ZIP-100 is formatted as NTFS.
The SpinRate author Steve Gibson participates here, but the official FreeDOS formatting tool is FORMAT currently maintained by Eric Auer. Why don't you try to use FORMAT on your ZIP first?
By the way, doesn't IOMEGA recommend that only their tools be used for formatting ZIP disks?
"Iomega recommends formatting Zip and Jaz disks with the IomegaWare™ software format option."
Perhaps ZIPs are somewhat non-standard and / or picky about the tools used to deal with them?
Lucho
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