home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   OS2      Fidonet International OS/2 Conference      3,371 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 764 of 3,371   
   Ilya Zakharevich to All   
   Re: formatting to FAT32   
   03 Apr 11 09:17:44   
   
   rogrammer.misc,comp.os.os2.misc   
   LevGdIZWbTvv+SXA";   
   er.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+awkG8wSewzJI/xamzSKXK"   
   os2.utilities:165 comp.os.os2.programmer.misc:2080 comp.os.os2.misc:3127   
   From: Ilya Zakharevich    
      
   On 2011-04-03, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard  wrote:   
   >>> * Raw access with DosRead/DosWrite/DosSetFilePtr works just fine on    
   >>> your ~4GiB FAT32 volume.   
      
   >> No. We know that it does not work OK.   
      
   > Yes, we know that it works OK when reading and writing whole disc    
   > sectors using the raw interface.   
      
   Do not you listen?  It does not work OK in this situation.   
      
   > Allan has run CHKVOL all of the way    
   > through quite successfully, twice even, and sent me the log of its    
   > output as proof.   
      
   Who cares?  So you know ONE situation when it did work successfully;   
   this proves nothing - expecially when I know one situation when it did not.   
      
   Ilya   
      
   --- Internet Rex 2.31   
    * Origin: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. (1:261/20.999)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca