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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:04:25 +0200
From: Philippe Dallemagne <pda AT csem DOT ch>
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Subject: Re: [DRDOS7] FAT 32 support
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Thanks.

PowerQuest Lost&Found includes DRDOS 7.02 witout the FAT32 drivers. I
guess the support is included within the application itself, since it
worked fine on a lost FAT32 partition (at least for me).

Philippe.

Matthias Paul wrote:
> 
> 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.