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Date:	Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:43:42 PDT7
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: DFSEE help

Since my last posting, I have been experimenting and have eliminated the
LVM error but still haven't been successful in reading the FAT32 USB hard
drive. I suspect I am either not writing the blanker file correctly or not
copying the file to the drive properly with DFSEE.

I created the blanker file, maxtor.img, using:

f232blank s:63 h:255 sp:00000000,0 sz:17bd52d8,24792 f:maxtor.img

I used wrim to write the file to the Volume and then to the Disk. Neither
seems to have worked.

I am going to start over, but want to make sure I am understanding this so
I don't keep making the same mistake.

DFSEE reports the following information:

P-Geo Disk 4 Cyl : 0 H: 0 S:0 Bps:512 Size : 0x00000000 = 0.0
KiB

L-Geo Disk 4 Cyl : 24792 H:255 S:63 Bps:512 Size : 0x17BD52D8 = 194474
MiB

BIOS Int13 limit : 1024 cylinders, limiting to Size : 8032.5
MiB

MBR crc 054b4eb9 : 0xcce185ed = IBM OS/2 LVM or W4 from
FP9, I13X

Parameters for fat32blanker are:

FAT32 blanker version 0.1.5 - Usage:

S:sectors H:heads SP:starting point SZ:size
[SN:xxxxxxxx] B:Y|N F:file [Q:Y]

Where the parameters are:
S: hard drive sectors per track
H: hard drive heads
SP: where the FAT32 partition begins, format: number,[x|d][s|c]
SZ: size of the partition, same format as above
"x" stands for "hexadecimal", "d" for "decimal", s for "sectors"
and "c" for cylinders; if none specified, defaults are x & s
B: if the program should merge Win9x bootcode in its output or not
SN: A valid 8 hex digital code for volume serial number
F: a filename for the blanked FAT32 structures to be dumped to
Q:Y if the program should not output anything to the display

Thanks,
Sandy

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