Hello?????

1999-06-10 Thread Larry Howard Mittman
What has happened to this list? The last message I received in my mailbox was June 3. Since then, nothing. Has it truly been this quiet, or is it ANOTHER one of the on-going problems I have with my ISP? == Never cross a dragon - for you

Psion ELKS Memory Mangament and Protection.

1999-06-10 Thread Simon Wood
Hi all, I'm pressing on with the Psion port of ELKS and need some input into how to use the available memory. The included file details the Psion memory structure and has some sketchy suggestions for it's use. memory.htm Yours, Simon Wood Hardware Engineer Pace Micro Technology plc

Technical question boot problem

1999-06-10 Thread killes
Hi all! I've got a 808[68] maschine with a 40 MB harddisk with MS-DOS 3.3 installed. I want to use this maschine with ELKS in future so I decided to make a backup of the disk first. Can I just move the whole disk with it's adapter card to my Pentium? I noticed that there is a xt disk driver

Re: Psion ELKS Memory Mangament and Protection.

1999-06-10 Thread Alan Cox
Your summary seems pretty good. So its 384K base 64K window 64K window (junk) The segment switching for ramdisks is a non issue. We are either writing to the code or data segment, so you an do large I/O's to the window boundary using one segment for the target

Re: Technical question boot problem

1999-06-10 Thread Jakob Eriksson
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I've got a 808[68] maschine with a 40 MB harddisk with MS-DOS 3.3 installed. I want to use this maschine with ELKS in future so I decided to make a backup of the disk first. Can I just move the whole disk with it's adapter card

Re: Park (Was: Technical question boot problem)

1999-06-10 Thread Jakob Eriksson
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, David Murn wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Jakob Eriksson wrote: BTW: Do you, Jakob, or somebady else know, whether one has to "park" the xt-disk before shutting down the computer? Is this neccessary, and if, how do I do this with linux and/or ELKS? If no one

Re: Technical question boot problem

1999-06-10 Thread Dan Olson
BTW: Do you, Jakob, or somebady else know, whether one has to "park" the xt-disk before shutting down the computer? The guy who gave me the xt insisted that I had to use the "park" utility that he had written for the disk before switching power off. AFAIR it "parks" the head of the disk on

Re: Technical question boot problem

1999-06-10 Thread Dan Olson
I've got a 808[68] maschine with a 40 MB harddisk with MS-DOS 3.3 installed. I want to use this maschine with ELKS in future so I decided to make a backup of the disk first. Can I just move the whole disk with it's adapter card to my Pentium? I noticed that there is a xt disk driver for