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David Hart:
I have noticed that the File Manager on WinOS2 on ArcaOS 5.0.2 hangs and I could not figure out why.  I have never seen this issue before but I began to wonder if the reason was the size of the drive (12 Gig - not big by today's standards) but it only hangs when using WinOS2 File Manger.  Opening documents from WinOS2 Applications does not hang.

Today I thought I would hide that FAT32 drive and then try to open the file manager and no hang.

Has anyone seen that?

I set up the FAT32 drive and it is the 3rd partition with WinXP first with 50 Gig, then ArcaOS (JFS) with 14 Gig then Fat32 at 12 Gig.

thanks

Doug Bissett:
The problem is, that DOS, and by extension Win/OS2, only know about 2 GB partitions. That is the reason why later versions of ArcaOS have the 2GBfix package installed. It is at HOBBES: https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/dos/2gbfix.zip. That package is further modified by a patch; https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/dos/2GBFIXPA.ZIP. When you use that, DOS and Win/OS2 only see 2 GB drives, even though there is a lot more there.

Dave Yeo:
Works fine here, even displays a 2.8GB file which kind of surprised me. FAT32 volume is 31GBs.
Perhaps there is a broken short name? Winos2 does display the 8.3 short names for long names, which is nice as they just don't show up with a JFS or HPFS volume.
Could be the version of the fat32 driver as well, I'm using the latest which may not have been released yet.
I do have the patch that Doug mentioned installed and DOS sees,

--- Code: ---O:\>dir q:

The volume label in drive Q is FAT32.
The Volume Serial Number is 1709:2826.
Directory of Q:\

MOZPRO~1 ZIP 2828406809   1-22-20  6:04p
LIBCX    ZIP    931741   3-30-20 10:17a
QTWEBE~1     <DIR>       4-01-20  2:21a
LOCALE   TXT        52   4-06-20  6:18p
      ~2            20   4-07-20  9:13p
      ~1            20   4-07-20  9:13p
492~1    PAT      4950   3-29-20 11:14p
VERSIO~1 DIF      2394   3-29-20  2:09p
FOO                  0   4-11-20  3:50p
49~1     2           0   4-11-20  3:50p
      10 file(s) 2829345986 bytes used
                 2147155968 bytes free

--- End code ---

You could try a dir at a DOS prompt

David Graser:
Did not ArcaOS 5.04 come with the https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/dos/2GBFIXPA.ZIP fix?  Previous versions did not.  The original was

https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/dos/2gbfix.zip

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: David Graser on April 29, 2020, 08:51:13 pm ---Did not ArcaOS 5.04 come with the https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/dos/2GBFIXPA.ZIP fix?  Previous versions did not.  The original was

https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/dos/2gbfix.zip

--- End quote ---

IIRC, it is first included in 5.0.5

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