Hi Michael,
as you say WinXP sees the controller but can not format,
can it at least read existing floppies? Will the drive
spin up when XP tries to access it?
About your project to connect either an ISA floppy controller
or directly a classic floppy drive without a controller (I am
not sure wh
March 21, 2020 5:19 AM, "Eric Auer" wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> as you say WinXP sees the controller but can not format,
> can it at least read existing floppies? Will the drive
> spin up when XP tries to access it?
Seems to spin up alright, don't think I have any formatted disks
though...
> Abo
Confirmed that the BIOS has to be set to disable onboard floppy controller,
that is for USB floppy only.
The floppy drive seeks, but I get:
Critical error during INT 13 disk access
INT 13 status (hex): 08
Bits: DMA troubles
Description: DMA overrun
Program terminated.
> I'm currently setting
March 21, 2020 10:08 AM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote:
> Confirmed that the BIOS has to be set to disable onboard floppy controller,
> that is for USB floppy
> only.
> The floppy drive seeks, but I get:
>
> Critical error during INT 13 disk access
> INT 13 status (hex): 08
> Bits: DMA trouble
Hi!
> I had as a goal work around the floppy issue, but I'm hitting a wall
Maybe some other tools could work better? VGA-COPY once was
nice for copying even exotic formats and it can also format:
https://moenk.de/pages/vgacopy.html
(Download link at the end of the German description text)
Ro
On 3/20/2020 6:55 PM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote:
As this is an industrial single board computer that's 20 years old,
I'm wondering if I can get the source code to the bios?
I guess you would have to check with the manufacturer for this. I know,
dealing with a company in Shenzen can be a bi
I appreciate the response. I'm waiting on a usb to floppy adapter and I'll
leave my real floppy controller disabled for the time being. Purportedly, USB
floppy works in MS-DOS and possibly Freedos as well. It's Windows 98SE that is
questionable because if I'm not mistaken Microsoft screwed up th
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 4:17 PM wrote:
>
> Purportedly, USB floppy works in MS-DOS and possibly Freedos as well.
I don't really mess around with physical floppies much anymore. But I
briefly re-tried my Sony USB Floppy Disk Drive (model MPF88E) yesterday
(Dell Inspiron laptop from 2009/2010,
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:43 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> With the new [NASM 16-bit] build(s), I tried rebuilding the FD kernel.
> It seems the TCPP101 version ran out of memory on KERNEL.ASM!
It was actually only because I was using WmakeR (real mode) instead of
the (386 pmode) Wmake executable. N
The bios supports a USB floppy drive and purportedly it will work in MS-DOS...
I've got an adapter coming Monday and will give it a shot under Freedos and XP.
I can theoretically if XP will remap the Atapi Zip as A: replace floppies with
a zip disk. Can I create an image file in XP and map that
On 3/21/2020 2:16 PM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote:
I appreciate the response. I'm waiting on a usb to floppy adapter and
I'll leave my real floppy controller disabled for the time being.
Purportedly, USB floppy works in MS-DOS and possibly Freedos as well.
It's Windows 98SE that is question
I found it on ibiblio, archive though I think if the loading in low memory
problem can be fixed that it should be included as an optional packet driver for
other people who have an Intel PRO100VE network card.
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