Hi Michael: Well, what's trying to use it is the FreeCOM VOL command! (Or something else in FreeCOM). I doubt that there are any explicit calls to VDS functions there. The kernel may be more likely.
This appears to be the same bug that caused FDISK to wipe out the MBR, so it at least appears that just initializing the VDS functions is trashing something in memory. I could ship you this laptop if you believe that will help or I can run any test routines you can think of! Mark Bailey > At 11:53 PM 7/28/2005 +0000, Mark wrote: > > >Do I need VDS? :-) What does it do? How can I help > >identify the problem? I do have the Haunted HP Pavilion (TM)! > > Turn it off if everything works without it. It's just for upper memory > reporting of true physical address instead of logical address for DMA > purposes. Maybe something is trying to use a function that isn't supported > or ignoring a return code that a sub-function is not supported. You don't > see any feedback messages when it's present do you? VDS will write to > display a line about unsupported functions, but can't help if a program > tries to use a subfunction that returns an unsupported code. > > Without the machine that croaks, though, not much chance I can tell you > what's going on with the VDS problem. Could be the fault of either VDS > support, or what's trying to use VDS. And no way of knowing here what or > how to fix/work around it. > > I was going to make VDS a default, maybe I shouldn't. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September > 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
