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Enhanced DR-DOS FAT32 corruption (Users)

posted by Guti , 09.07.2013, 20:12

Let's see what Udo has to say!
Hope it will be able to clarify/solve it.

> Thank you glennmcc for your reply.
> That being WIP is what I thought as the possible cause for the issue.
> Unfortunatelly stable version at level of 7.01.7, has not the later
> implemented read/write optimizations, and feels noticeably slower.
>
> Regards.
>
> > > Since I upgraded my MS-DOS 7.1 box to Enhanced DR-DOS 7.01.08 I found
> > that
> > > filesystems is being slowly corrupted.
> > >
> > > The FAT32 volume was 100% under MS-DOS, but after the switch I started
> > > experiencing file not found errors and so on.
> > >
> > > When I ran the FAT32 enabled SCANDISK from DOS 7.1 in it, it found
> lots
> > of
> > > problems. Can see a screenshot here http://twitpic.com/d1hz5r
> > >
> > > Is any experiencing such corruption problems too? Is 7.01.07 stabler
> on
> > > that sense? According to the changelog, it should not have any big
> > changes
> > > on the FAT32 handling.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > I have not used it on FAT32 partitions but rather only FAT16
> > therefore I can not comment on the FAT32 corruption you are seeing.
> >
> > However, I think this clipping from the download page says it all.
> >
> > ____________
> > http://www.drdosprojects.de/index.cgi/download.htm
> >
> > Enhanced DR-DOS 7.01.08 WIP (21.7.2011)
> > This is a work-in-progress version of the upcoming DR-DOS 7.01.08
> > It is to be considered unstable and not ready for general use
> > other than for testing and demonstration purposes.
> > ____________________________________________________________________

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Complete thread:

• Enhanced DR-DOS FAT32 corruption - Guti, 08.07.2013, 11:56 (Users)
  • Enhanced DR-DOS FAT32 corruption - glennmcc, 09.07.2013, 00:24
    • Enhanced DR-DOS FAT32 corruption - Guti, 09.07.2013, 08:51
      • Enhanced DR-DOS FAT32 corruption - Guti, 09.07.2013, 20:12
        • Enhanced DR-DOS FAT32 corruption - RayeR, 10.07.2013, 02:06
          • Enhanced DR-DOS FAT32 corruption - Guti, 10.07.2013, 19:42
            • EDR-DOS FAT28 corruption (most likely NOT due to EDR-DOS) - DOS386, 09.08.2013, 10:53
              • EDR-DOS FAT28 corruption (most likely NOT due to EDR-DOS) - Guti, 08.09.2013, 08:52
                • EDR-DOS FAT28 corruption (most likely NOT due to EDR-DOS) - Rugxulo, 08.09.2013, 17:53
                  • EDR-DOS FAT28 corruption (most likely NOT due to EDR-DOS) - Guti, 09.09.2013, 08:18
                    • EDR-DOS FAT28 corruption (most likely NOT due to EDR-DOS) - DOS386, 11.09.2013, 04:41
                      • EDR-DOS FAT28 corruption (most likely NOT due to EDR-DOS) - glennmcc, 11.09.2013, 17:07
                      • EDR-DOS FAT28 corruption (most likely NOT due to EDR-DOS) - Guti, 27.09.2013, 13:10