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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

My partner reported that FreeDOS fdisk cannot find any fixed disks, so we 
tried floppy boot with it on all our computers and so far only two are 
affected.  Of these computers, as least one also won't boot at all with 
floppy disk FreeDOS (divide by zero error) with about 10 of 12 hard drives 
we tested.  One Caviar works as master, one 'identical' one as slave but 
not as master (both 540MB) and a pile of Caviar and Conner 170-540MB and a 
Fujitsu prevent FreeDOS from booting at all.  The computer that is fussy 
about drives also won't boot from bootable CD-ROM so something is wrong 
with the BIOS (we set it to boot) but I was running linux on it fine (from 
DR-DOS) for about 6 months.

The computers are circa 1996-97 - is it worth reporting this as a bug?
The drives are 1996 or older.

FreeDOS fdisk can make four primary DOS partitions.
Linux fdisk can make partitions that work where PQMagic fails (after a 
partition table gets corrupted).  So the fdisk problem is not terribly 
important but beware of FreeDOS on Pentium I computers.  It does now let 
you use loadlin with emm386, and only MS DOS 7.10 and DR-DOS do besides.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org