On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:29:23 +0300 (MSK), Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
EA> Hi, still looking for a way to make FORMAT able to format 720k disks in 1440k drives...
I think, you may/should turn off this feature until you receive explicit requrest for this format and/or you get testbed (with 720k disket
Hello Johnson,
JL> I've tried to replace HIMEM64C/EMM38664 instead of FDXXMS/UMBPCI and
JL> during test I crash the PC with following configuration:
JL> device=c:\freedos\emm38664.exe
JL> devicehigh=c:\freedos\udma.sys (ver 6.8, loading low this can pass)
The problem here is, that loading UDMA h
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:14:01 +0100, you wrote:
Hello Tom,
>try
> device=c:\freedos\emm38664.exe VDS
Tested together with HIMEM64 and HIMEM64C, still crashing.
Seems HIMEM is not the source of problem.
>if that works - fine.
>if not, load UDMA low.
Thanks for you suggestion.
I just play with t
> Right. So here are my questions. First, is there some better
> combination of utilities I should use? Second, what am I losing,
> exactly, by using umbpci.sys instead of emm386.exe? And finally, how
> come cwsdpmi doesn't work with emm386.exe?
I can share my experience with FreeDOS memory ma
OK, more questions. My boot disk uses DJGPP, which needs a DPMI
provider. I also need to maximize the free conventional memory
(winnt.exe uses a lot), so I also want to have an XMS (or is that
HMA?) provider and a UMB provider.
At the moment, I am using himem.exe, umbpci.sys, and cwsdpmi. I hav
Hi,
Eric asked if one uses HS drive to format DD disks, and you do with /F:720
Arkady V.Belousov escribio':
Hi!
31-Янв-2004 14:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to
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EA> Hi, still looking for a way to make FORMAT able to format 720k
EA> disks in 1440k drives...
I think
At 1 Feb 2004 9:38am -0500, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> OK, more questions. My boot disk uses DJGPP, which needs a DPMI
> provider. I also need to maximize the free conventional memory
> (winnt.exe uses a lot), so I also want to have an XMS (or is that
> HMA?) provider and a UMB provider.
>
>
Hi!
1-Фев-2004 10:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luchezar Georgiev) wrote to
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>> I think, you may/should turn off this feature until you receive explicit requrest
>> for this format and/or you get testbed (with 720k diskettes).
LG> Although 720 KB (DD) diskettes are not sold anymore, yo
At 03:54 PM 1/29/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Available via anonymous ftp at ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads are the files
>HIMEM64C.EXE, an uncompressed executable, and HIMEM64C.ASM, the source. Let me know
>if you can't ftp and need an HTTP or an e-mail send.
We have several bugfixes on thi
Hi Michael,
Precisely today and tomorrow I have some time to test and a PS/2 machine
handy, where to try the A20 handling there. Can you please (or someone
else) mail HIMEM (source and executable, public or private) for the
testings?
Aitor
Michael Devore escribió:
At 03:54 PM 1/29/2004 -0600
At 10:18 PM 2/1/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Michael,
>
>Precisely today and tomorrow I have some time to test and a PS/2 machine handy, where
>to try the A20 handling there. Can you please (or someone else) mail HIMEM (source
>and executable, public or private) for the testings?
Latest revision p
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1-Фев-2004 22:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamarэa Merino) wrote to
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ASM> Precisely today and tomorrow I have some time to test and a PS/2 machine
>>We have several bugfixes on this version and someone, probably Tom Ehlert,
>>is releasing an updated version soon, so I've p
>ASM> Precisely today and tomorrow I have some time to test and a PS/2 machine
>>>We have several bugfixes on this version and someone, probably Tom Ehlert,
>>>is releasing an updated version soon, so I've pulled the HIMEM from ftp site.
>>>Thanks for your comments to date, there were most helpful
Hi!
1-Фев-2004 19:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
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>> If you wish, I may test himem on Am386DX machine with UMC chipset.
And MS-DOS 6.22.
>>Though, should be pointed URL for archive with testing files and explained,
>>what and how to test.
MD> Basically
>
>>>Though, should be pointed URL for archive with testing files and explained,
>>>what and how to test.
>MD> Basically, if you don't know what HIMEM is or how to load it, you probably
>MD> shouldn't test it.
>
> I know what is himem and how to load it, I don't know how _you_ wish to
>test it
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1-Фев-2004 19:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
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MD> http://www.drivesnapshot.de/rfreedos/emm386x8.zip is latest version Tom
MD> Ehlert had up, last I knew. It is later than anything I had.
Review sources. himem64.asm contains setz instruction. This instr
Hi!
MD> http://www.drivesnapshot.de/rfreedos/emm386x8.zip is latest version Tom
Well, I test himem64 on 386DX under MS-DOS. It works. At start it says
"KBC A20 method used". As I understand, it makes more verbose output when
Ctrl-Shift pressed, but under MS-DOS pressed Ctrl prohibits config
At 05:46 AM 2/2/2004 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
>Hi!
>
>1-æÅ×-2004 19:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
>MD> http://www.drivesnapshot.de/rfreedos/emm386x8.zip is latest version Tom
>MD> Ehlert had up, last I knew. It is later than anything I had.
>
> Rev
Hi!
1-Фев-2004 21:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
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>> Review sources. himem64.asm contains setz instruction. This instruction
>>only available for 386+, whereas himem should be loadable on 286 also.
MD> Further source review would show that
>
>Note "Driver revision" - there is bug (DRIVER_VER in himem64.asm should be
>equal to 0310h). In compare with QEMM (and MS-HIMEM) I see, that himem64
>makes less free handles (28 versus 58 and 31) and it implements INT 2F/4309
>(see "Handle" column). What I may say more?
I don't see a problem w
>>> Review sources. himem64.asm contains setz instruction. This instruction
>>>only available for 386+, whereas himem should be loadable on 286 also.
>MD> Further source review would show that HIMEM is for 386 only, as the
>MD> check_cpu routine shows. That's been a basic requirement of HIMEM
Hi, I have updated the new MODE with builtin codepage things:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ mode-modecon-02feb2004.zip
You can now use it to change NUMLOCK / CAPSLOCK / SCROLLLOCK / SWITCHAR,
which is a feature inspired by "classic FreeDOS MODE". I hope it actually
works (m
Hi!
1-Фев-2004 21:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
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>>Note "Driver revision" - there is bug (DRIVER_VER in himem64.asm should be
>>equal to 0310h). In compare with QEMM (and MS-HIMEM) I see, that himem64
>>makes less free handles (28 versus 58 and 31) and it implem
Hi!
2-Фев-2004 07:15 Arkady V.Belousov wrote to
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MD>> What more could you say? I suppose you could say what you're expecting and
AVB> I expect memory manager, which (on 386+) gives access to: HMA and XMS;
AVB> UMB and EMS; overlaps EMS over XMS; allows to run programs with
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