Re: [Freedos-devel] 4, 096 byte sectors and DOSLFN, UIDE...question

2014-01-03 Thread Bertho Grandpied
Bret Johnson > ... : that any formatting, >> and if necessary, maintenance, be done under another OS, >> e;g., under Linux or Windows XP. > "Meanwhile" being the key point here, as that is really your only option > right now since DOS utilities can't do > everything they should be able to do (at

Re: [Freedos-devel] 4, 096 byte sectors and DOSLFN, UIDE...question

2014-01-03 Thread Bret Johnson
> This is surprising, you should retry, you may have been mistaken > somehow IMHO. I tried it with MS-DOS 6.2 and it didn't work. I'll try to remember to test it again someday (not in a position to do it now). > ASPI is not the level doing disk access, it is a wrapper for DOS > around the SCSI

Re: [Freedos-devel] 4, 096 byte sectors and DOSLFN, UIDE...question

2014-01-03 Thread Bertho Grandpied
On: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 01:45:46 GMT "Bret Johnson" wrote : >> No such change is needed, large sectors work 'out of the box'. >With all manufacturers and versions of DOS, or just with MS-DOS 7+? Definitely /not just/ MS- DOS 7. Microsoft's DOS kernels were coded to cope with block device secto

[Freedos-devel] fdpkg version 0.21 update!

2014-01-03 Thread sparky4 insano
i updated fdpkg to the freedos repo version 1.1 this is a WiP i made it a beta release http://4ch.mooo.com/fdos/pack/fdpkg.zip <3 with love, sparky4 Administrator of 四葉の芽◇ちゃんねる -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before t