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another bug in doslfn (Announce)

posted by jadoxa Homepage E-mail, Queensland, Australia, 26.03.2022, 08:49

> Btw, something about the dosfsck.exe tool: if it's been run to check the
> FAT32 ramdisk, it wants to "cure" the content of the FS-info and BS-backup
> sectors. Obviously it isn't happy with the sector numbers -1 as set by the
> ramdisk.

FreeDOS: if the info & backup sectors are -1 don't use 'em.
dosfsck: if the info & backup sectors are 0 don't use 'em.

Oh, goody. New version of rdrvsx32 with valid info & backup sectors. A size < 100 is assumed gibibyte, otherwise mebibyte. You can also have a drive bigger than 32GiB (that was previously an implicit limit, 64Ki FAT sectors).

 

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