On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:

> 25-Мар-2004 08:48 Arkady V.Belousov wrote to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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> AVB> ; the HMA area is filled with 1eh+3(=sizeof VDISK) = 33 byte dummy data,
> AVB> ; so nothing will ever be below 0xffff:0031
> AVB> begin_hma:
> AVB>                 times 10h db 0   ; filler [ffff:0..ffff:10]
> AVB>                 times 20h db 0
> AVB>                 db 0
>
>      BTW, strange arithmetics: sayed about 33 bytes, but allocated 49 bytes.
> Also, where documented VDISK header (where I may read about this)?

It's in the VCPI spec. Available at many places including here:
www.dose.se/docs/osdoc/unsorted/ProtectedMode/VCPI.txt

49=33+16. The first 16 are still in the ROM BIOS. The header is at
ffff:0010

Bart



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