Date:  Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:36:06 -0300
From:  "Mark Dodel" <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: DFSee 5.23 released; BMGR detection improved

From: "Jan van Wijk" <jvw_nospam at dfsee.com> 

For easy detection of several (eComstation/OS2) installation problems some
interesting additions heve been made to the PART display that:

- Will identify THREE different IBM bootmanagers correctly
  1) The original one, created by FDISK, no I13X, no LVM
  2) The updated FDISK one, now including I13X but no LVM
  3) The one created by LVM, including I13X and of course LVM

- WARNING if a bootable partition requires I13X to boot, but
  either the installed BMGR of the MBR code does NOT support that

- Warning if primary 'active' partition beyond cylinder 1023
  is present and the MBR does not support I13X

- Int-13 limit (cylinder 1023) for BIOS is shown at DFSee startup
  together with a short description of the detected MBR-code


DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. With
FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery, FIX commands, UNDELETE for
HPFS/NTFS, imaging and cloning. More details at:

http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm

Direct download links:

http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee523.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/dfsee523.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee523.zip

Most important functional changes:

 - PART     Detect 3 different versions of BMGR: FDISK/I13X/LVM
 - PART     Format "none" = unformatted, "unknown" = unrecognized
 - PART -w  Minor warning for IBM BMGR when it is not W2K protected
 - Startup  of DFSee or DFSUNFD/DFSTART scripts use "FDISK -m" now
 - DFSIBMGR Fixed bug for disk other than 1, allow different name
 - PART     Warning when MBR or BMGR has no I13X while required
 - TYPE     Types 0x8a/8e/a8/ab/bb/fa/fb/fc/fd now recognized
 - TYPE     XOSL bmgr 0x78 type recognized now (in PART cmd too)
 - LVM  -n  Do not update disk/sector if it is no LVM-sector yet
 - LVM  -c  Skip CRC update for non-LVM sectors (non-LVM partitions)
 - PART -s  Added display of (old) BMGR-name, even when "--> LVM"
 - CHECK    Does not set RC to #errors anymore, better for scripts
 - DISK/MAP Added System Commander MBR code recognition / display
 - PART/MAP Display INT13 1023 cylinder limit with the '-m' option
 - SET      Added "set ASC 7/8" for 7-bit or 8-bit ascii output
 - TxWin    Updated codepage-437/850 compatibility for TxWindows
 - TxWin    Refined Windows NT/W2K/XP version if no servicepacks

Check DFS*.TXT files for details, all changes listed in DFSHIST.TXT

Registering DFSee will give you the right to use all 5.xx versions and get
support plus a reasonable amount of assistance by email. Existing 4.xx
registrations can be upgraded to 5.xx as well.

But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee!

Regards, Jan van Wijk

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DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk;  Author of DFSee -
dfseeDESPAM at fsys.nl



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