[openbeos] Re: mkdos and DriveSetup

  • From: "Marcus Overhagen" <dos4gw@xxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 23:09:36 +0100

"Zenja Solaja" <zenja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hey Marcus.  I'm suprised that you're having problems with DriveSetup, since
>I had the reverse problem.  The version of fdisk shipped with Win98 wouldn't
>see anything bigger than 33Gb (the 24bit cylinder/head/sector problem) and
>the only way I could initialise the disk was with DriveSetup within BeOS.

This is not eactly the reverse problem. DriveSetup is working fine,
the problem is that you can't initialize FAT32 partitions larger than 32 GB.

But the replacement for mkdos will be finished soon :)

regards
Marcus 

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