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another bug in doslfn (Announce)

posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 27.03.2022, 04:48
(edited by Japheth on 27.03.2022, 08:12)

> 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).

There's a small bug in this version: the volume label entry in the root directory isn't written to the first sector of the root cluster, but to the second. This confuses MS scandisk a lot, makes it display a rather misleading error message. After clearing the volume label entry with a disk editor, the error disappears.

About doslfn: please hold off a new release! It's likely that there's still a bug in make_free_dirent_space, causing a "hang". I have no test case yet, but may be able to narrow the bug down.

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