[arachne] Re: Pocket Arachne 1.85 FAT16/FAT32

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Hi!

>          I did a check for FAT16 vs FAT32 partitions that are not seen
> by Pocket Arachne.

> HD#1 seems to be not there.
>      It contains 2 partitions
>         C: FAT32
>         E: FAT16 ... FAT16 and not regognized!!

> HD#2 recognized by Pocket Arachne = D: FAT16 (partition <2MB)
>      Remainder of HD#2 not yet formatted.

Does that partition E start beyond cylinder 1024 on the hard disk?
OpenDOS 7.01 not only does not support FAT32, but it does not support
the extended int 13h API, either, so it can access at most 7.8GB of the
space on each hard disk. If either the beginning of the partition itself
or the extended partition table is beyond the limit accessible by the
old int 13h interface, it probably cannot find this partition.

Also, OpenDOS 7.01 neither recognizes partition types 0eh (FAT16 LBA)
nor 0fh (Extended LBA), so it cannot detect these kinds of drives nor
logical drives within a type 0fh extended partition.

Regards,

Udo

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