Since I sent out my question some things have been uncovered, so I don't
think FreeDOS is the culprit. But for closure I'll tell you what's going on.
Well basically what happens is that we have Transcend and Stec
Disk-on-module fixed disks, and when they come new to us, we boot them up as
slave devices, and from our master - running freedos - we partition these
disks using the following commands:
Fdisk /clearall 2
Fdisk /auto 2
Fdisk /modify:1,12 2
Fdisk /mbr 2
Fdisk /activate:1 2
This was all fine and dandy. But we recently tried to do this on a newer PC
using a newer AwardBIOS. What we discovered was that the BIOS would
autodetect these disks (out of the box) as "Large". When we then under these
circumstances partitioned them, and moved them to a different system
(different bios) they got detected as CHS, and various programs would throw
tantrums over the partition being out of whack. We now recently discovered
that forcing the AwardBIOS to use CHS as the access mode, the partition
works fine in other systems. Some work still left, but it's not FreeDOS at
this point.
Thanks for the advice, will try out Xfdisk SPFDisk just makes me worried
when I use it.
-- Per
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Per,
>
> > We're using FreeDOS in a few different systems.
>
> Interesting!
>
> > And we're having an issue where partition tables get a bit funky.
>
> Can you explain in more detail?
>
> > Bug 1945 (*Bug* 1945* LBA* support may not be detected correcty
>
> I assume that is a bug in FDISK? I recommend using XFDISK or
> SPFDISK which are also free, or using another OS to partition.
> The FreeDOS kernel itself, as well as for example lbacache,
> should detect and use LBA without problems. You can use the
> SYS tool to patch a kernel config variable (SYS CONFIG /?
> explains how) to force it to always use / never use LBA :-).
> Both cache and kernel (before loading other files) should also
> show messages about their disk detection results :-).
>
> > However the bug service seems to be down
>
> Indeed... Damage in the power supply for some servers afaik?
>
> Eric
>
> PS: If you use FAT16, make sure to use the partition type
> for FAT16-LBA to use LBA... Win9x can try LBA even if your
> partition is marked as CHS - FreeDOS is less guess-happy.
>
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