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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 16:02:39 -0700
From: Neal <lbneal AT pysmatic DOT net>
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DRDOS FDISK
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DR-DOS FDISK has a strange way of assigning the partitions.

In most uses this is not a problem, but both of my retail boot loader
systems have failed due to
this behavior.  I have had troubles with Linux booting that appeared to
be due to this
problem.

I have made Linux partitions with DR-DOS FDISK and Linux refused to
recognize them.

Neal

Robert W Moss wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:01:27 -0600 Charles Dye <raster AT highfiber DOT com>
> writes:
> > At 06:29 PM 9/15/00 -0600, "Pat" wrote:
> >
> > >I would like to know hat problem people are having with DRDOS 7.03
> > FDiSk,
> > >7.02 for that matter?  I have been using it for several eyars now
> > and have
> > >had no problems, in fact just the opposite.
> >
> 
> >snip<
> 
> > Second, it writes a strange OEM ID string.  Something like
> > "DRDOS  7" if memory serves.  This ID string is probably
> > purely cosmetic for DR-DOS, but MS-DOS uses it to decide
> > whether or not to "trust" the values in the BIOS parameter
> > block which specify (for example) the cluster size... and,
> > indirectly, the start of the root directory....
> >
> 
> This ID string was covered by Paul Mattias in a post several months ago.
> Several different entries were used by DRDOS, NDOS7, OPENDOS7.x,
> IBM PCDOS.
> 
> It was not purely cosmetic and was used basically for the same reasons
> MSDOS (all versions) used it.  If you check back in the archives you
> should be able to find it and the changes he made to correct it in the
> OPENDOS/DR-DOS/DRDOS versions.
> 
> Or you could contact him at:
> 
> eMail: <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
> 
>  When MSDOS ran into this ID on any DRdos versions it would trash your
> system to some extent and would not let your windows programs run
> properly,
> if at all.  That was part of the lawsuit, if memory serves me right.
> 
> > raster AT highfiber DOT com
> >
> >
> 
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