Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel 2035a HD format problem (Arkady's unstable version)

2004-08-19 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
I try to FORMAT a Seagate hard disk with FORMAT 0.91r and got an error "bad sector", I think maybe hard disk have some physical problem. and I "zero fill" it with Disk Wizard, and later I can format. Later I repeat this action with another PC in office and got the same error. This time even "ze

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel 2035a HD format problem (Arkady's unstable version)

2004-08-19 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:54:09 +0300, you wrote: Hi Lucho, >What were the file systems - FAT16 or FAT32? I formatted FAT32 with FORMAT >0.91r under UNSTABLE on 2 different disks here: 40 GB and 1.2 GB, and >FORMAT did a great job on both, at that very quickly I think you help Arkady compile that

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel 2035a HD format problem (Arkady's unstable version)

2004-08-19 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Strange is when I do a FDISK delete partition, make a new FAT32 partition and format will report 'consecutive bad sector' error, I have to boot Win98 (with F5) to format. What is the partition type - FAT32 LBA (a.k.a. FAT32X), or FAT32 CHS (a.k.a. FAT32)? My successful tests were with FAT32 LBA

[Freedos-devel] [Fwd: freedos and networking]

2004-08-19 Thread Gregory Pietsch
I got this from Pierre-Richard Potgeiter. -- Gregory Pietsch --- Begin Message --- Hi How are you?   I have hit a brick wall with trying to get Lantastic to work on Freedos, We run a Point of sale on dos and now we have to switch to freedos, It's a very nice system, We use lantastic to commu

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[Freedos-devel] [Fwd: freedos and networking]

2004-08-19 Thread Alain
Hi Pierre-Richard, There is one very good MS-Client for windows that is 100% free from a most unexpected source: MICRO$OFT. It was released for Win311 and states very clearly that it is free. If you do not find it I can Try to find where mine is I tested it more than a year ago and it worked g