[Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread saywhat
This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the problem. I haven't pinned it down yet but the problem seems to occur with more than just one pgm. I've seen it when installing UKA17X2 (i.e. UKA_PPP), A189GPL

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Hi Eddie, 2006/8/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching > enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the > problem. Well, thanks indeed for the reports, perhaps you could tell us too if you're using EMM38

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:15 AM 8/21/2006 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching >enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the >problem. SMARTDRV is pretty particular on some machines. I just pulled the following from the Microsof

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread saywhat
Aitor Santamar?a wrote: >2006/8/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching >> enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the >> problem. > >Well, thanks indeed for the reports, perhaps you could tell us too if

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:50 PM 8/21/2006 -0600, Eddie wrote: > I was really hoping that this problem had been silently fixed by >all of the other work that has been done recently. I was disappointed >when the same problem cropped up again - because that means more work. > >So far I haven't done the work to iso

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:50 PM 8/21/2006 -0600, Eddie wrote: >I was really hoping that this problem had been silently fixed by >all of the other work that has been done recently. Doesn't look VDS-related, the executable only uses a couple of common calls there. Not much more I can tell you. Maybe the origina

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-22 Thread saywhat
Michael Devore wrote: > At 02:50 PM 8/21/2006 -0600, Eddie wrote: > >>I was really hoping that this problem had been silently fixed by >>all of the other work that has been done recently. > > Doesn't look VDS-related, the executable only uses a couple of common calls > there. Not much mor