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Mail:Re: 512 MB harddisk bug... Arachne 1.50
file:D:\INTERNET\ARACHNE\MAIL\ARCHIVE\34004490.MES Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:56:08
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From: James Hall <[email protected]>
the FreeDOS Project
To: Remi van Zon <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 18:48:04 -0500
Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586)
Subject: Re: 512 MB harddisk bug...
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Remi van Zon wrote:
>
> Hello Jim,
>
> Can you please tell me it the 512 MB harddisk bug was fixed. More than a
> half year ago, i tried to install some freedos, on a 500 MB partition of
> a 1 gig harddisk.
>
> Lost my filesystem, but some 'norton' thing could fix it.
>
> Is this bug fixed in the BETA 3 version?
The bug has an interesting history. It was fixed by Pat at one point,
when he still maintained the source. But when the code was passed on to
John Price, the bug reappeared! John, et al., are working on the bug,
but we don't have a fix right now. Probably you'll see some major
improvements when RxDOS is merged into the FreeDOS code base. Until
then, I wouldn't use FreeDOS on anything larger than 512MB.
-jh
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Arachne InSight 3.3, (G)1999 xChaos software & New Wave Microtechnology
