Arca Noae is pleased to announce the immediate availability of our fork of the FAT32 Installable File System Driver Package for OS/2 version 5.0.4. Arca Noae wishes to thank Gregg Young for his work on this update.
Highlights of this release include:
- Fixed version string buffer overflow
- CHKDSK now fixes bad media descriptors (a minor filesystem error)
- Added /exclude command line switch to IFS to turn off lazy write on a per-disk basis
- Fixed /Q so it actually is quiet
- Fixed write failure when cache isn’t enabled
- Fixed FAT32’s propensity to claim it can handle FAT12/16 volumes
Please read the FAT32 wiki and the ReadMe for additional details and before installing this software.
The FAT32 Installable File System Driver Package is open source, licensed under the GNU LGPLv2.1, with source code publicly available (see the FAT32 wiki for details).
This is not the same driver as distributed by Netlabs, and cannot coexist with components of the Netlabs FAT32 driver. Please uninstall the Netlabs driver first if you wish to install the Arca Noae FAT32 driver.
If you have ArcaOS, this driver package is available for download from the Arca Noae website as part of the Support & Maintenance subscription for your ArcaOS product. Please log into your account and see your ArcaOS order details page to access your software.
If you have an Arca Noae OS/2 & eCS Drivers and Software Subscription, this driver package is available for download from the Arca Noae website as part of your Arca Noae OS/2 & eCS Drivers and Software Subscription. Please log into your account in order to access your software.
If you are still running OS/2 and/or eComStation systems and haven’t yet purchased a software subscription, this is a great reason to do so now. It may also be a good time to consider moving up to ArcaOS.
This entry last updated: November 10th, 2021 by
