This may be a side effect of memory corruption with EMM386. In fact, it appears to be a result of some interaction with EMM386. I do not believe the hard disk in question is faulty and I do not believe that it has non-standard parameters.
I do not believe the memory corruption is due to the hard drive configuration. There are plenty of other solutions... I recommend using one of them instead of FreeDOS FDISK. :-( Mark > Hi Michael, > > >> If it's always been there, why have more people not been affected? > > > Biggest mitigating factors are that if your hard drive behaves without > > errors, is reasonably standard with expected parameters, and there is no > > corruption of the program, the MBR write on startup won't occur. > > Ah, so this bug only happens with faulty hard-drives or file-systems? > > It's just I have to build 30 PCs in coming weeks, plus some production > servers, and plan to use FreeDOS FDISK to partition them. I was a bit > worried reading about this bug, but all my hard drives are brand new, so > should be OK. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
