Sure I'll test it ... I've just bought a 40 GB drive which is clean atm.
Also, I think it would be nice if the web site disclosed what Preferences
apps everyone is working on.
Cheers
Phil Greenway
PS. I'm working on the Dial-up Networking Preferences app -
http://obos.gravity24hr.com/ for screenshots.
At 05:03 AM 27/01/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Hi,
I noticed that DriveSetup fails to initialize partitions with the dosfs (dos/windows file system, FAT32) when the partition is larger than 32GB (It's 38 GB here, and I want to use BeOS to initialize it :-)
Further investigation showed that DriveSetup uses add-ons contained in /boot/beos/system/add-ons/drive_setup/fs to do the job, but the "dos" add-on executes the mkdos program, which failes.
| $ /boot/home/config/be/Preferences/deviceSetup | will not prompt for confirmation | using a 32-bit fat | geometry: cylinders = 1, sectors = 80019765, heads = 1 | BIOS geometry: cylinders = 1024, sectors = 63, heads = 255 | mkdos error: Calculated sectors/cluster too large (128). | Try using a larger sized FAT
Since FAT32 supports drive sizes up to 2 Terabyte, I decided to write a replacement of mkdos. The core functionality should be finished by tomorrow. Calculation of sectors/cluster is already working fine :)
usage: mkdos [-n] [-t] [-f 12|16|32] device [volume_label] -n, --noprompt do not prompt before writing -t, --test enable test mode (will not write to disk) -f, --fat use FAT entries of the specified size
The remaining problem is evaluation of arguments, which I never did before. I hope somebody can help me,
By the way, this is the way it is used by DriveSetup, but I would like to have it working from the shell also.
argv[1] = -n argv[2] = -f argv[3] = 32 argv[4] = /dev/disk/ide/ata/1/master/0/0_0 argv[5] = daten_1
A few remaining questions, to be answered by the Preference team: Anyone already doing this? Should I stop? Are you working on a DriveSetup replacement?
regards Marcus (media kit team :)
PS: I need some volunteers to test it, once it's finished.
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