Hi again, On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 2:09 PM Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > > I'm running FREEDOS 1.2 on a 32 gig cf chip which works > just like an IDE harddrive. Only about 2 gigs of the chip is > used, the rest is free space with a FAT 32 format.
It could be some kind of obscure firmware bug. So maybe a flaw in your BIOS (HDD emulation of CF) or something specific to the CF itself. I don't know, I can only guess. My Lenovo desktop (2011) was triple-booting for many years. My FAT32 partition there was "only" 4 GB. I had no problems in FreeDOS. When that hard disk started dying, I backed it up to (I think?) a 16 GB Lexar jump drive. (I have an older 1 GB Kingston jump drive that still works perfectly, but that uses FAT16, which is inefficient.) I did actually see some copy problems and errors (in FreeDOS: FreeCOM, etc), but I just halfway assumed it was a firmware bug and decided not to mess with that jump drive for active use (only for rarely grabbing backup files). It could also be a FreeCOM bug. Or something else entirely. Or some combination of bugs. It could also be something to do with DOSLFN (if you have that loaded). I don't know, just stating the obvious here: there's a lot of little pieces, and none of them are perfect. I did create (empty) FAT16 and FAT32 (.VHD) files for MetaDOS. Not exhaustive, sizes can vary quite a bit, so there's a lot that can be tested. So, in theory, some bugs should be reproducible, if anyone wanted to try. I (barely) suspect that larger FAT32 drives haven't been tested as much for FreeDOS, at least not exhaustively (utilities and whatnot). But it's also likely that the main bug here isn't in FreeDOS. It's very hard to iron out every obscure bug, especially with so few testers and volunteers. FreeDOS works great but is not immune to bugs. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
