FreeDOS Scandisk - Compilation Errors for Pascal code

[Low Level]

Hi

I'm having difficulties using FreeDOS Scandisk,
possibly because I'm not quite sure as to how to
set up my hard drive format.


1. The PC's specs I was using to compile were:

- A doubly partitioned hard drive, where C: had
all system on it as a primary and active FAT32
partition, and where D: was a logical FAT32

- Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0

- The two files compiled correctly and produced an .EXE file

- I booted the PC via some BootCD with Win98 system files
and attempted to run FreeDOS Scandisk on pure MSDOS mode


2. The things I wasn't sure about were:

- FreeDOS Scandisk appeared to report some of my C: and
later D: information correctly, but also claimed there
was some boot area read errors.

- When FreeDOS Scandisk tried to do a surface scan,
it would report a non-DOS disk for either C: or D:
so that no scan was done.


Any ideas on how to fix the above?
Thanks in advance
LL

[Marco van de Voort]

Post by Low Level
I'm having difficulties using FreeDOS Scandisk,
possibly because I'm not quite sure as to how to
set up my hard drive format.
- A doubly partitioned hard drive, where C: had
all system on it as a primary and active FAT32
partition, and where D: was a logical FAT32
- Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0
- The two files compiled correctly and produced an .EXE file

Then that ends the Pascal relevancy? Maybe a freedos group would be more
appopriate.

The only strange thing I notice in your post is that you use win98 system
files, yet freedos scandisk. Are these even compatible with eachother?

[Rugxulo]

Hi,

Post by Marco van de Voort

Post by Low Level
I'm having difficulties using FreeDOS Scandisk,
possibly because I'm not quite sure as to how to
set up my hard drive format.
- A doubly partitioned hard drive, where C: had
  all system on it as a primary and active FAT32
  partition, and where D: was a logical FAT32
- Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0
- The two files compiled correctly and produced an .EXE file

Then that ends the Pascal relevancy? Maybe a freedos group would be more
appopriate.
The only strange thing I notice in your post is that you use win98 system
files, yet freedos scandisk. Are these even compatible with eachother?

I've never used their Scandisk, but it's probably just unfinished or
unimplemented FAT32 support (or maybe even buggy). From what I've
heard, their chkdsk is the 16-bit tool and dosfsck is the preferred 32-
bit one.

But yeah, please ask on a FreeDOS mailing list (or even BTTR's Forum),
you might get better answers. ;-)