Re: [Freedos-devel] Virtual DMA services with EMM386

2006-02-16 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:38 PM 2/14/2006 +0100, Ladislav Lacina wrote: OK. It seems that Diamondware can handle soundcard even without VDS available but if is VDS supported only partially it protests. here is the package: http://www.laaca.borec.cz/dwstk.zip Just run the TEST.BAT file. Says 'support for digitized

Re: [Freedos-devel] More weird behavior trying to boot USB sticks

2006-02-16 Thread Mark Bailey
Hi Alain: No config.sys. Just kernel.sys and command.com. Nothing else on the stick (well, oscheck sometimes!). I'm getting the same behavior when I use the FreeDOS "SYS" command to format the USB stick on this computer. Mark Alain wrote: in previous message: > (since the HP utility "hide

Re: [Freedos-devel] More weird behavior trying to boot USB sticks

2006-02-16 Thread Alain
in previous message: > (since the HP utility "hides" the system files) at a: That is usualy not compatible. I had many problems with such utilities over the years. If you can disable it, it would be probably better. Apparently, MSDOS boots the stick and assigns it C:. Apparently, FreeDOS boo

Re: [Freedos-devel] More weird behavior trying to boot USB sticks

2006-02-16 Thread Mark Bailey
Hi everyone: OK, I'm an idiot. Alain has it exactly correct. Apparently, MSDOS boots the stick and assigns it C:. Apparently, FreeDOS boots it and assigns it as A:! This means that I need to go back through my test cases and see at what point I lost the ability to do a "dir a:". Further, the H

Re: [Freedos-devel] More weird behavior trying to boot USB sticks

2006-02-16 Thread Mark Bailey
Hi Alain: This stick should boot as C:...it does in MSDOS and, in some cases, FreeDOS. It would boot as A: only if I was using another boot loader (like SYSLINUX) (I think). If the stick were a:, it would boot to an "A:" and I would see a blank disk (since the HP utility "hides" the system file

Re: [Freedos-devel] More weird behavior trying to boot USB sticks

2006-02-16 Thread Alain
Hi Mark, I haven't really understood all that you did, but hear my comment anyway ;-) If I run the utility, instruct it to format the USB stick and use FreeDOS development (February 14, 2006) files, FreeDOS boots to a C:\> prompt all right, but a "dir c:" shows me the files from an extended FAT