From: "Bob Jonkman" Organization: SOBAC Microcomputer Services To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 21:24:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: DRDOS FDISK Message-ID: <39C3E4FC.23770.EBB5C07@localhost> X-Confirm-Reading-To: bjonkman AT sobac DOT com X-pmrqc: 1 In-reply-to: <4.3.2.7.0.20000916164615.00a8b580@mail.highfiber.com> References: <006301c01f76$5bc82820$d18a1004 AT dbcooper> X-PM-Encryptor: QDPGP, 4 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This is what Charles Dye said about "Re: DRDOS FDISK" on 16 Sep 2000, at 17:01 > At 06:29 PM 9/15/00 -0600, "Pat" wrote: > DR-DOS can create partitions that are big-time incompatible > with MS-DOS, possibly resulting in trashed volumes if such > drives are accessed by The Evil Empire DOS. I don't recall the > size limit -- 127 megs, perhaps? -- but I'm pretty sure I first > saw the problem on a Maxtor 7120. > Reading a small drive set up this way under MS-DOS is > amusing and harmless. Writing to a drive set up this way > under MS-DOS will probably trash disk structures and data. > I do not recommend using the newer (Caldera) versions of > FDISK. The one that shipped with Novell DOS 7 is probably > okay. > I've used the DR-DOS FDISK/format (both v7.02 and v7.03) regularly on 40 Mbyte drives with no problem. Of course, I only use DR-DOS to write to them, since MS-DOS is nowhere to be found on these computers. Applications (WordPerfect v5.1, Pegasus Mail v3.3) seem to have no trouble with a DR-DOS partition/file system. Pat: Were you perhaps meaning that you FDISK a drive with DR-DOS's FDISK, then run MS-DOS (MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS, COMMAND.COM) on that drive? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.2 -- QDPGP 2.61a Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iQCVAwUBOcQdOqLoCveuM+mJAQG94gQAmgbUnM8chyRd34Husqc0asxpgSKkCSyt hLVRozRSVqUKCWfvNkGy+X/vMOj1aK0xUB3jkgSYNBYiPTQi9pvBdepui53dc2gj i1XQYLsQvWUPkE7PNXA7qEYnBgKEh9H5aGmmBqsxquVlXlJnJKoRb531UDFb8996 7ASIpuLEWSU= =YI92 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ===== Bob Jonkman Voice: +1-519-669-0388 SOBAC Microcomputer Services E-Fax: +1-603-308-6118 6 James Street mailto:bjonkman AT sobac DOT com Elmira Ontario N3B 1L5 Canada Networking -- Office & Business Automation -- Consulting RSA Fingerprint: 9FAF A6AC B567 BC10 8973 7CF0 CB27 0317 RSA ID: 0xAE33E989 mailto:bjonkman AT sobac DOT com?subject=send_key Web site temporarily at http://www.geocities.com/bob_jonkman