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Ranish Partition Manager revived (Announce)

posted by boeckmann, Aachen, Germany, 18.01.2023, 21:15

> I tested it again todaywith the 256 GB SSD HD and got the value 67 instead
> of 77.
I also tried it now under VirtualBox with a 2 TiB disk. dosfsck tries to allocate ~268MB memory, which it fails to. That is exactly the size of the FAT table, so my guess is it tries to load the table into memory as a whole. Interestingly memory allocation also fails if the VM has enough RAM. There seems to be some maximum memory allocation size. Skimming over the XMS specification my guess is that there is an block allocation limit of 64MB (maximum DX value, function number 09h).

I had success in checking a 256GB disk.

If loading dosfsck via LH as you suggested I immediately get the same error code as you. I think it is not working correctly if running with LH.

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