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| author | Javier <dev.git@javispedro.com> | 2026-09-30 00:24:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Javier <dev.git@javispedro.com> | 2026-09-30 00:24:23 +0200 |
| commit | 9b1cf601360fb194047e6dcc2af75c2f38c611ec (patch) | |
| tree | 7d4145534d830aef87483aaf2f8c390dd40eb4b9 | |
| parent | 0a656a4a84f920194958d339d61ed567eba9c03c (diff) | |
| download | chu-master.tar.gz chu-master.zip | |
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -6,19 +6,19 @@ using the datasheets, so it has a (hopefully different) new repertoire of bugs t Some features: -* Can support multiple partitions. You can either show multiple drive letters (the number of drive letters is fixed at boot, though) +* *Can support multiple partitions.* You can either show multiple drive letters (the number of drive letters is fixed at boot, though) and/or dynamically switch a single drive letter to a different partition from the command prompt. This does wonders to workaround the FAT16 2GG limit, as you can define a dozen FAT16 partitions and switch. -* On DOSes which support FAT32, can optionally show FAT32 partitions to the DOS. +* On DOSes which support FAT32, can optionally *show FAT32 partitions* to the DOS. -* I mostly ignore CHS addressing and focus on LBA. This makes it way more capable of handling non-DOS formatted USB pendrives, +* I mostly ignore CHS addressing and focus on LBA. This makes it way more capable of handling non-DOS partitioned USB pendrives, and is generally less of a pain. In theory this allows disks of up to 2TB (be mindful of partition size limits though). -If DOS asks for geometry, it gives whatever is on your current partition. +If DOS asks for geometry, it gives whatever is on the BPB of your current partition. * Supports just enough IOCTLs to make DOS 6.x format.com "work" (only to re-format existing partitions, since it will simply re-use geometry from whatever FAT is already there). -Note this is a DOS-level driver, so FDISK won't work (which expects a BIOS-level driver). +Note this is a DOS-level driver, so FDISK won't work (which expects a BIOS/int13-level driver). * Build is for 386+, tested on pocket386/book386, but source builds on 8086. @@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ Hopefully much easier to experiment with than with the official one. # Download +[chu.zip](https://depot.javispedro.com/dos/chu/chu0.zip) + +Current version is 0. # Installation |