X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f Message-ID: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4FD6B4A@emwatent02.meters.com.au> From: "da Silva, Joe" To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: RE: Fix...; FAT32 access Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:24:16 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com I don't have any FAT32 partitions (at least, not yet), so I haven't tried this stuff, but Florian mentioned in May about a project to add FAT32 and LBA support to the OpenDOS 7.01 code set : "www.drdosprojects.de". This project seems to be active, with the latest "snapshot" dated at 2003/8/31. If you have a backup of your hard disk and can therefore experiment with it, this looks like a worthwhile alternative to try out. Joe. > -----Original Message----- > From: Michal H. Tyc [SMTP:mht AT bttr-software DOT de] > Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 7:27 PM > To: opendos AT delorie DOT com > Subject: Re: Fix...; FAT32 access > > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:19:19 -0400 (EDT), Paul O. BARTLETT wrote: > > > However, on my old machine I found a technique that worked well for > > me. I used Partition Magic to create a primary partition at the > > "front" of the disk. Then I created an extended partition in the > > middle and moved Windows 98 to the back. In the extended partition I > > put one logical partition. I formatted the first primary partition and > > put DR-DOS 7.03 on it. I formatted the logical partition in the middle > > as FAT16. Both DR-DOS and Win98 could see the "middle" partition, so I > > used it for passing files back and forth. I just took the care that > > from Win98 I only used 8.3 filenames on the common partition. It > > worked very well for me. (I did not have a long filename diriver in > > DR-DOS.) > > Oh, yes, a "middle" partition that can be accessed by both systems > works very well (I tried it before), but only as long as you have > much free space on your disk and full freedom in partitioning it. > And while replacing hard disk with bigger one is easy and quite > cheap in a desktop machine, in a notebook it's not. > > Michal