I appreciate the suggestion and I made the attempt but chkdsk c: /f
found no errors and no effect on the behavior. It continues not to be
able to boot directly to the hard drive but will if booted to the Live
CD and boot from the hard drive is selected.
Respectfully, I don't think the hard dr
Hello all,
New user to FreeDOS 1.3 here. I'm encouraged and still learning the ropes but
as an ages-ago DOS CLI user, it all seems very familiar. I have an old HP
Omnibook 4100 which is a Pentium II 233 notebook with 160 MB RAM and PATA hard
drives with which I'm playing/experimenting. I say
It's that time again! I'm planning another release of mTCP so now would be
a good time to let me know what needs to be fixed.
The next version will be fully compatible with mTCP NetDrive so that you
can run the standard mTCP programs while a NetDrive remote drive is active.
There will be some othe
Just a quick update ... a server version for recent Macs has been added to
the downloads. Thanks to Tim Sedlmeyer for prompting me to do the cross
compile and doing the testing for it!
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new test release! I've shared a news item about it on
> the website so folks can download it and help test it.
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 11:45 PM Michael Brutman via Freedos-user
> wrote:
> >
> > mTCP NetDrive lets you mount floppy disk and hard drive images over th
The journaling is at the block device level, not the filesystem level. So
it works on any filesystem.
The user interface makes people make explicit "checkpoint markers" in the
journal which are known safe points to roll back to. I could have done it
based on a timestamp, but then somebody might
The code doesn't actually care if an image is a floppy image or a hard
drive image; it's just a FAT12, FAT16, or FAT16B image and all are
supported.
There are two good use cases for floppy images:
- Mounting a driver disk temporarily over the network to copy something
from it without having
mTCP NetDrive lets you mount floppy disk and hard drive images over the
network to your DOS machine, allowing you to examine a floppy image or add
gigabytes of network attached storage in seconds. It runs on all versions
of DOS including FreeDOS, requires a minimal amount of RAM, and will work
acro
I kind of got lost on this thread because I couldn't tell if the person was
trying to print to a USB attached printer from DOS or a parallel port
attached printer from DOS.
In general, when I need to print from DOS I do the following:
- Print to a file if the program supports it. If the progr
print
server option a try. Thx.
From: Frantisek Rysanek
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2024 10:26 AM
To: Michael Perry ; freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to USB Printers
Microsoft Network client for MS-DOS can produce a local LPT device
that gets redirected ov
Using FreeDOS 1.3 on bare metal. Yes, I know that USB came well after DOS's
golden years.
All of the parallel to USB adapters I've seen require Windows drivers. I tried
USBPRINT without success (although USBDRIVE works great to copy files to a UBS
drive.) And I'm not interested in running virtu
Still down ...
Rugxulo - you are a regular there too. Any idea on what is going on?
Mike
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https://www.bttr-software.de/ hosts the best DOS forum around and I check
it regularly. Today it is returning a 404 and it looks like the domain
registration has lapsed or is incorrect.
Does anybody know what is going on?
Mike
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That attitude toward the MS-DOS source code seems rather limiting and
short-sighted.
My recent device driver worked well enough on later versions of DOS (and
FreeDOS) but I was having a devil of a time trying to figure out why DOS
2.x would not honor the device driver telling it that the media had
You clearly don't use search engines too much ...
Try "FreeDOS" and "Networking" as your two words for the search.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 7:38 PM Brandon Taylor via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Since FreeDOS doesn't support physical network hardware (even if it'
I'm just kind of amazed at what I read here at times.
It is no secret that DOS is no longer a mainstream operating system. As a
result, support for it on physical hardware is minimal, if it is supported
at all. Modern machines are just not intended to be used with DOS as the
primary, "bare metal
FAT is finicky but FAT is not the issue here.
As long as the machine has sufficient time to complete its last writes and
you don't have any programs running using the disk, it should always be
safe to shut down - DOS doesn't buffer or delay writes unless you have some
sort of disk caching program
with
some sort of proxy that meets the spirit of the requirement.
Anyway, I think the OP has been scared off so this is an academic
discussion now. ;-0
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 3:02 AM Frantisek Rysanek
wrote:
> On 8 Jan 2024 at 10:29, Michael Brutman via Freedos-user wrote:
> ...
&
That last post was impressive, but I think it makes things way too
complicated.
Obviously something that does real-time operations should not be burdened
with a TSR. But it should also not be burdened with running DOS on legacy
hardware either. Nobody in their right mind is running something saf
How much is it worth ($$$) to your supervisor?
SNMP runs over UDP. It is possible to write an SNMP agent that runs in the
background as a TSR, but such a thing doesn't exist today. If somebody is
willing to invest it can be done.
-Mike
On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 12:30 PM Anton Gustafsson via Free
It's difficult to follow all of the details of the discussion.
Have you ever looked at getting a shell account on sdf.org? It still
supports plain old Telnet I think it comes with an email address. They
support POP3 and IMAP access to the email too.
Links and Lynx are available there when using
I added some limited Unicode support to mTCP Telnet and mTCP IRCjr in the
last release a few months ago.
- I used a text file to store the mapping. That lets people add code
points or make corrections if they don't like the choices I made.
- The code uses the text file both ways; to figu
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 1:00 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Impressive for a PCjr. :-)
>
>
One day we might even be able to boot FreeDOS on it ... (it has some
challenges.)
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> News item posted on the website. I'll also share it on Mastodon.
>
>
> Jim
>
> On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 11:38 AM Michael Brutman
> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html
> >
> > From the release notes:
> >
> > Unicode
http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html
>From the release notes:
- Unicode support for Telnet and IRCjr
- RLE graphics support in Telnet (fun as a demonstration, but not very
practical)
- The web server gets a built-in SNTP client for keeping the server time
correct across many days/
I think it is pretty safe to assume that everybody using FreeDOS in the
last 10 to 20 years has access to another, more capable device that can
read PDFs. Even low end cell phones have had this capability for the past
5 years.
I started with pure TXT files, composed on the same DOS machine that I
e PDF. Can we not do that in the
future? Nobody is going to want to wade through a 293KB text file.
-Mike
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 5:59 PM Michael Brutman
wrote:
> What version of FreeDOS are you installing?
>
> If things are really borked then keep in mind that mTCP is a standalone
What version of FreeDOS are you installing?
If things are really borked then keep in mind that mTCP is a standalone
project and you can get all the original files at its website. See
http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html for the downloads and PDF
documentation.
Mike
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 15:5
I initially mis-read what Tom had written about programming on DOS being
painful. He is not wrong. ;-0 I program "for" DOS for the challenge. But
I don't program too much "on" DOS, because I'm not interested in
challenging myself that much.
I used to use Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS on a DOS machine f
ed to
what your keyboard can produce.
-Mike
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 8:36 PM Michael Brutman
wrote:
> I've never wanted to support Unicode and UTF-8 because of the potential
> performance problems on slow machines and the problem of mapping Unicode to
> code pages. I solved one pr
I've never wanted to support Unicode and UTF-8 because of the potential
performance problems on slow machines and the problem of mapping Unicode to
code pages. I solved one problem, but not the other. ;-0
If you'd like to try it the instructions are at
https://groups.google.com/g/mtcp/c/Z0RhZK9hI
Read the documentation for whatever networking software you are using.
mTCP in particular is not a "resident" program, so your FreeDOS machine
will not respond to ping requests unless an mTCP program is actively
running. WATTCP programs have the same behavior.
tried, but lpr.exe can be found in
> <
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/wattcp/wat2001b.zip
> >.
> Look in apps/apps.zip.
>
> Maybe Michael Brutman wishes to port it to his mTCP suite:
> http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/
>
> Cheers,
>
This is an 8 year old email thread and you are expecting working links from
back then?
Regardless, archive.org is your friend:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130430233113/https://geek.com/chips/nasa-needs-8086-chips-549867/
Consider donating to them.
On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 6:52 AM Aitor Santama
It would be swell, but it's never going to happen ... at least not from me.
- Computationally, SSH is not feasible on the 16 bit machines that I
target for this project.
- Even with enough compute power, you need to find DOS equivalents of
all of the libraries. Which includes the cip
Just for a little bit ... :)
Thanks!
Mike
On Fri, Jul 8, 2022, 4:59 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 6:19 AM Eric Auer wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi! Forwarding from BTTR:
> >>
> >> A new mTCP is available (2022-07-
Hi - yes it is true, a new version is available.
Please hold off on mirroring it at ibiblio for a little bit ... I'm trying
to gauge how many users I have based on downloads, and that falls apart
once people start to mirror it.
Cheers,
Mike
On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 6:19 AM Eric Auer wrote:
>
This has all been terribly interesting, but I can't help but think:
- This product should have been ported to a more capable operating
system years ago.
- The inner workings of how the product was made to run under DOS seems
to have rotted away.
- This really isn't relevant to FreeD
I have that exact same card in a Pentium 133 system. It's a good card.
This sounds silly, but try removing and reseating the card in the slot.
Really ... I've had cards that have been installed for ages where the
electrical contact on the pins oxidizes and then the card becomes flakey,
and this
'Culture' at large really is knocking on the door of pravda+izvestia.
That's my 'suffering' through this thread...
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 11:39 AM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Karen, Jim,
>
> threatening legal actions against people who misunderstand
> your suffering is not appropriate. At all. It make
I hate to even suggest this, but are you using the /B option on the file
copy to indicate that a binary copy is needed? Otherwise, the first Ctrl-Z
in the file will end the file copy prematurely.
On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 3:37 PM Frantisek Rysanek
wrote:
> Dear gentlemen,
>
> on and off, with B
s more
equivalent to a TCPDUMP trace.
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:14 AM Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 5/26/2021 10:17 PM, Kelley McChesney wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
> I went through the instructions to enable debugging and pinged
> www.brutman.com. I have attached my MTCP config file an
Hi - I'm the author of mTCP. mTCP is shipped with FreeDOS but it is an
independent project.
Please check the PDF, specifically the section on debugging. I'd like to
see a trace from your system when you are using a bridged Ethernet
connection. Use PING (the one that comes with mTCP), but specify
Yes, it seems to be functioning normally now. The next time I see a 5xx
type error I'll know not to try to debug it. ;-0
If the wiki is generally fast enough I wouldn't change anything. My
opinion was formed last night after one long session with it when it was
clearly struggling. If that is no
ay 6, 2021 at 4:45 AM Jim Hall wrote:
> Hi Mike!
>
> I can create an account for you.
>
> I'll create your account today and send it to you.
>
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2021, 11:14 PM Michael Brutman
> wrote:
>
>> I've noticed some inaccuracies on the FreeDOS netw
I've noticed some inaccuracies on the FreeDOS networking wiki pages. How
does one get an account so that edits can be made?
-Mike
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This is an old trick and I have it documented in the mTCP PDF
documentation. Here is a quick overview.
If you have a printer that is network enabled and it speaks Postscript,
PCL, Epson ESC P2, or plain text then you can "print to a file" under DOS
and then use Netcat to send the file to your pri
I am fully aware that BIOS used to be updated in MS-DOS. I am 41 years
old, older than some people who seem to be experts on this and
probably older than Liam. Stefano, did you ever successfully update
your bios? Reality is, Windows 95 dos and Windows 98SE DOS is not
really dos per se and Windows M
Jerome Shidel wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> On Apr 10, 2021, at 3:20 PM, Michael Brutman
> wrote:
>
> Gents (Jerome and Rugxulo in particular) ...
>
> As per
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/fdnet.html
> FDNET
Gents (Jerome and Rugxulo in particular) ...
As per
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/fdnet.html
FDNET is being distributed under GPL V2. However, it includes mTCP source
code which is licensed under GPL V3. As per
https://www.gnu.org/licen
Eric:
Some version of Windows is what Dell expects him to have to update his
BIOS, that's where that came in. ReactOS didn't fully start for him
when he burned it to a DVD and tried to boot that DVD, but that isn't
surprising considering that ReactOS has not even reached beta status
yet. If he swi
upgrade programme. But alas,
alack it is not to be.
As a best guess would putting ReactOS onto a memory stick overcome
this
problem?
Before I progress to Liam's options is there any other option you can
think of.
Thanks and wait to hear
Stephanos
On 09/04/2021 13:39, Michael Christo
Got it, some end of the 32 bit era early 64 bit era laptop is what you
have then. Interesting. Kubuntu 18.04, that is very current. It's okay
if you don't have Zip or LS120 handy, I wouldn't go get one. So you
have an external and internal CD burner that works, and I imagine you
have some media as
A couple of questions, what model DELL laptop are you trying to update
the BIOS on? What level of Windows or even MSDOS for that matter was
the laptop originally designed to run? Clearly, this laptop has some
USB so I'm guessing those are probably two USB 1.1 ports and I'm
thinking the laptop is so
Ditch the memory stick even if you can do this from inside DOSBOX
directly on top of Linux. It's worth a shot even if you have to swap
in MS-DOS 6.22 temporarily or Windows 98SE DOS prompt temporarily in
DOSBOX. If you can do this from within DOSBOX, you don't have to go
get any media you may not a
Is your laptop SATA based internally or EIDE based? If you are EIDE
based, you are actually in great shape. All is not lost either if you
aren't EIDE based. Can you get away with something like a ReactOS
0.4.13 live CD to sort of give you Windows long enough to run the EXE
and upgrade your BIOS? Ba
have to
respectfully withdraw.
-From: "Ralf Quint"
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc:
Sent: Thursday April 8 2021 10:52:15AM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] GNU General Public License..
On 4/8/2021 4:40 AM, TK Chia wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
>> Th
The license MUST be viral. Folks, anyone who complains about it being
viral doesn't understand it at all. Google is a monopoly. Google
doesn't like the GPL because Google wants to lock up Android and data
mine everyone on the planet.
How is your free gmail account after all? You have no privacy wi
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 2:54 AM Michael Christopher Robinson <
michae...@charter.net> wrote:
> First off, I think too much has been said and a lot of it is troubling.
> Partially and undeniably because Richard Stallman is a hard person for many
> folks to relate to. I've nev
First off, I think too much has been said and a lot of it is
troubling. Partially and undeniably because Richard Stallman is a hard
person for many folks to relate to. I've never met him, but I've known
for a long time that he has a really bad reputation as an anti social
individual. I've known abo
Jim,
Stallman is clearly a hard person to get along with. Part of the
reason is that Microsoft has been a monopoly for so long that the GPL
was the only way anyone could have a personal computer run something
not MS-DOS and not Windows NT in a realistic sense that they don't
have to buy a license
RMS stepped in it there, didn't he? Oops.
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 3:40 PM tom ehlert wrote:
>
>
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/red-hat-withdraws-from-the-stallman-led-free-software-foundation/
>
>
> maybe it's time to show the FSF the middle finger, too?
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> __
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:59 PM Bryan Kilgallin
wrote:
> I have been editing the OpenGEM code. It's a dog's breakfast! First it
> assumes that I didn't put the OpenGEM directory where I did. Then it
> cross-references jumps between batch files in an opaque way. And the
> writes to screen do not
One important note - buyer beware.
Most of these are open source projects. And in a lot of cases people are
taking the designs and not providing credit to the original designers, or
making design changes that the original designers have quality concerns
about. Monotech was one of those.
The retrocomputing crowd has a lot of these projects now, and they
generally work. Most are based on open source designs so the quality will
vary from vendor to vendor.
The 8 bit IDE cards for example are based on a project called XT-IDE that I
was part of back in 2008/2009. (See the genesis of t
Thanks for the dictionary definition, but I think you missed the point
here. mTCP != WATTCP, and I have no interest in WATTCP. WATTCP is a
library and a set of programs from many contributors while mTCP is all my
work. Being compatible with something that I originally had no knowledge
of an no i
able to use Wattcp/Watt-32 based tools (or rely on DHCP, which is
> the default fallback if no config file is found). I can only wonder why
> Michael didn't make his software compatible with the Wattcp
> configuration file instead of reinventing the wheel.
>
> > So both prog
Sounds really cool, but I'm doing a conference with the Linux Foundation
starting the 29th... Shucks!
-- Michael C. Robinson
http://lily.robinson-west.com/michael
June 17, 2020 6:54 PM, "Jim Hall" mailto:jh...@freedos.org?to=%22Jim%20Hall%22%20)> wrote:
The FreeDOS 26th ann
June 1, 2020 10:59 AM, "Eric Auer" wrote:
> Michael,
>
>> Booted the Freedos 1.3 RC3 live cd and the SATA I works!!!
>
> Glad to hear that but...
>
>> Windows XP is the only supported system
>
> Officially yes, but as long as it works, it works.
>
Booted the Freedos 1.3 RC3 live cd and the SATA I works!!!
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Windows XP is the only supported system on the Evoc 1714VNA SBC I'm
experimenting with, but I cannot run XP because of
HAL and special hardware connected with QSoft... QSoft directly tries to reach
the special hardware, a shared ram card,
which HAL will not allow. Only Windows on top of a DOS
I have an 865GV ICH5 chipset. There is SATA ehanced mode yes/no and that's it
in the bios.
You can map SATA to primary or secondary IDE, but that's all you can do.
I tried saying YES to SATA Enhanced mode and primary for IDE mapping SATA to
Secondary, didn't
work in 98se. I could see about g
SATA I in the future? Is there a way to
access the
SATA I in 98se? If the answer is no, I can use an adapter to convert my SATA
ATAPI
drive to PATA and connect it to the PATA 100.
The ACPI has to be turned off to run 98se sadly, the SATA I also has to be
disabled.
-- Michael C. Robinson
What is the goal for Freedos 1.3 Final? When possibly will the final release
come out?
May 31, 2020 5:45 PM, "Jerome Shidel" mailto:jer...@shidel.net?to=%22Jerome%20Shidel%22%20)>
wrote:
FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 is now available for download and testing.
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos
Freedos in general is an IDE only system, but why not support SATA I/II/III?
No MS-DOS, DR-DOS, etcetera don't support SATA, but why not support it
anyways?
What are the implications of adding SATA support to the kernel or
through a TSR?
The obvious workaround is to get a SATA to PATA con
If GPT is the issue, should a Linux based tool be used to get around
that? I'm thinking something like boot nuke or something similar.
April 23, 2020 8:16 AM, "Eric Auer" wrote:
> Hi! Which tools in which versions did you use?
>
> For example which FORMAT, FDISK...? Let me start by
> saying th
What kind of hard drive did you take out? Was it a serial ATA hard drive or an
IDE hard drive?
Have you considered trying Freedos 1.3 RC2?
Make sure you aren't in AHCI mode?
April 23, 2020 7:03 AM, "Ludovico Giorio" mailto:ludovico8...@hotmail.it?to=%22Ludovico%20Giorio%22%20)>
wrote:
Hello e
I have a Linux based gateway, Debian Buster based. It occurs to me that I could
run an ftp or http server to serve out freedos locally.
How would I point fdnpkg to the local repository? How would I mirror ibiblio
without putting too much load on it?
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I'm on a CentOS 7 system. I downloaded a rar archive of Wordperfect 6.0 dos
that is an archive of floppy images. I do not at this time have real floppy
support... but I do have zip disks. Is there a way I can mount these images and
create one larger image?
stall.
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dinosaurs like the veritable
8086. Just saying ;-)
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I think I missed a command.com line in fdauto.bat where it still said C:... and
that this is why fdnpkg.exe installed to the C drive.
If I'm wrong, why does fdnpkg.exe install to C: when I'm running on a Zip disk
mapped to A: by the bios?
I'm test installing freedoom to see where it lands...
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> I expect the GUI part and the machine part to communicate
> over a network, so I hope the GUI is much less hardware
> specific. Yet you say ReactOS is no option even there?
> You seem to be closely watching the ReactOS progress.
> Eric
>
The Tyco QSP-2 does not use a network like one would typi
name
choice as there is stuff for Windows 98 and Freedos as
well in there.
This reverse package management doesn't really really exist in Linux either :-(
For anyone who has installed a program to Linux using
a tarball instead of an rpm or deb (not Slackware ;-)), you understand what I&qu
op in NT without heavily re-engineering the system.
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ation of the IPX protocol would be
awesome. It would make a lot of old dos games work and an IPX/IP gateway could
be a Linux server where the Linux server could handle security (anti virus
squid proxy anyone).
-- Michael C. Robinson
March 23, 2020 1:33 PM, "Eric Auer" wrote:
>
I found a free packet driver and I'm testing both gopherus and Dillo. Very nice
programs.
Would be nice to be able to raise the resolution for Dillo. I think I'm limited
to 640x480 vga.
Dillo doesn't seem to work with my rainloop server ;-(
I can report that fdnpkg works though!
I don't think
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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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
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
k to you...
>
> I will try setting the floppy type to disable in the bios, maybe that will
> help...
>
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urrently setting drive a to high density 1.44m in the bios but
> disabling onboard floppy, since the bios is expecting a usb floppy.
>
> I will try the /D flag and get back to you...
I will try setting the floppy type to disable in the bios, maybe that will
help...
-- Mi
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 h
's 20 years old, I'm
wondering if I can get the source code to the bios?
Windows XP picks up the floppy controller, it just gets an unrecognized error
when I try to format a disk.
Freedos 1.3 tries to use the floppy drive, but I cannot format a disk there
either getting a DMA overrun erro
Doesn't work in Windows XP without Iomegaware... how about freedos?
As freedos is not designed to support USB, USB floppy will not work.
Short of getting the source code to the AMI Bios on my EVOC SBC, I'm not going
to make a real floppy controller work...
What are the implications of creating
>> I bet Freedos could be in place of MS-DOS if you only use HIMEMX.
Q-Soft for the Tyco QSP-2 installs to MS-DOS 5.22 and is a real time system on
the DOS side. It installs via actual floppy disk. If you are running the GUI
computer (Windows 9x) on say QEMU and emulating the floppy... but tha
Is the problem not having floppy capability on real hardware? Maybe you have
USB but not ATAPI cdrom?
Freedos as far as I know does not support USB let alone USB floppy drives. If
you don't have IDE or you
have an external USB drive such as a DVD burner... that doesn't help you get
it instal
I'm working with an EVOC brand SBC on a PICMG 1.0 backplane.
I have not been able to get floppy disk support in Freedos 1.3, period.
I know USB 1.1 isn't part of the DOS specification that freedos is targeting,
but a USB floppy driver is needed since that is what this particular SBC offers.
I'm
d higher. They
definitely don't work in Windows 10.
March 12, 2020 7:14 AM, "Eric Auer" wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
>> Research suggests that ACPI breaks ISA floppy in Windows XP
>
> Unlikely, if you ask me?
>
>> Under Advanced -> SuperIO Configurati
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