Mail Archives: opendos/2000/05/23/10:44:01
On Tue, 23 May 2000 Philippe Dallemagne asked:
> is anybody aware of any support for FAT32 format under DRDOS 7.x ?
> Any plan ?
There is a Caldera FAT32/LBA solution as a loadable driver (device
driver + redirector), which has Pros and Cons (I wrote about them
a while back this year, please have a look at the mailing list
archives). While this works, it is not the solution most of the
desktop users are looking for, I guess, and to speed up things
one would also need a new issue of NWCACHE.
Anyway, Caldera/Lineo provides this solution only to OEMs.
But you can download an evaluation version of Ontrack's Crash Recovery
Tool (I forgot the name right now) from Ontrack's web site. It uses
DR-DOS 7.03 and the DRFAT32 drivers to access FAT32 partitions
(excluding the newer NWCACHE). Powerquest's comparable tools also use
DR-DOS 7.03 to boot, but I'm not sure if they also use Caldera's
drivers for FAT32 support. Does anyone know?
The DRFAT32.SYS/DRFAT32.EXE drivers also work with DR DOS 5.0+
including DR PalmDOS, DR DOS "Panther", DR DOS "StarTrek",
Novell DOS and the like, and, of course, MS-DOS/PC DOS 3.3+.
Native FAT32 support in the DR-DOS 7 kernel was also planned,
but unfortunately is still not available from Caldera/Lineo.
Matthias
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