On 3/12/21 2:59 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi Jon,
actually I do not expect "drivers" like OnTrack, Ez Drive etc.
to mess with host protected areas.
It's not OnTrack that I think is messing with the HPA, it's the
SATA <-> IDE adapter. Because when I boot from the OnTrack
installation floppy, I
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 2:38 AM wrote:
>
> Please forgive me if someone has already noted this, but yesterday I came
> across another programming language which targets DOS and ultimately may be
> able to be used to compile on DOS. Despite the odd name (COWGOL) is does seem
> to be a totally
> As I said before, I suspect what's happening is that the adapter
> is detecting something that the BIOS is doing while trying to figure
> out the capacity of the disk, and "helpfully" setting up an HPA on
> the drive (and doing so so aggressively that all but a thousandth of
> the capacity of
Mar 12, 2021 7:30:03 PM Liam Proven :
>Caveat: you might find that it only has enough tag RAM in its L2 cache to
>cache 64MB of RAM.
>This was quite common in early Pentium boxes. Finding tag RAM these days is...
>unlikely, I suspect.
I'm not holding my breath about finding RAM of any kind
