Hi Arkady! > ...and? What next? Assign C: and D: for those additional drives? All > other (non-adjacent to A: and B:) drive letters will mislead users.
No. Users with three floppy drives are users of computers where other DOSes do indeed give C:/D: to floppy. But if we allocate drive letters after last harddisk drive letter they will not be too surprised either. In both cases they will be more happy than if they cannot use the third drive at all. But then again, this only affects a very special class of 808x based PCs. > No. DRIVPARM not _add_ drive letters, it _changes_ properties of > already registered. For example, on one broken computer with help of > DRIVPARM I say to DOS that change line doesn't working (properly). You actually know such a piece of hardware? 360k drive while BIOS limited to 160k drive or what kind of strange beast needed that? See my above comment. > Ok. How I may/should test the FDAPM? Where it (URL)? http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/fdapm-16apr2004.zip Just use the /? function to find out more. Of the *APM* options, only APMDOS (aka. ADV:...) will work and stay TSR. All other options do not make FDAPM go TSR by the way. The /? screen does not mention the SPINDOWN command, but the docs do. Have fun... HOTBOOT will most likely not work - just running int 19h to reboot only works if ALL drivers behave nicely and hook int 19h as a trigger to unload themselves, quite unrealistic. > EA> the ret / ret 8 issue in fl_lba_ReadWrite (when did that bug get INTRO... > When Bart changes fl_* function from ASMC to ASMPASCAL calling > convention. Okay, but was that before he released 2035 or after? What is the newest released kernel which is free of that bug? As you know compiling the kernel is more work than downloading it... What will trigger the bug, all LBA sector accesses? That would be a big problem then, should everybody compile the update themselves? Eric ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
