Hi!
9-Июн-2004 22:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to
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>> ...and? What next? Assign C: and D: for those additional drives? All
>> other (non-adjacent to A: and B:) drive letters will mislead users.
EA> No. Users with three floppy drives are users of computers where other DOSes
EA> do indeed give C:/D: to floppy.
AFAIK, other DOSes (by itself) don't give C: and D: letters to floppy
drives.
EA> But if we allocate drive letters after last
EA> harddisk drive letter they will not be too surprised either.
He _will_ be surprised, because other DOSes, which was used before, do
not show extra drives (without instructing them about this).
EA> In both cases
EA> they will be more happy than if they cannot use the third drive at all.
:) I myself never hear about computers with more than 2 drives, and I
doubt that will hear about such computers (after introducing hard drives).
EA> 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).
EA> You actually know such a piece of hardware?
Right now I have _no_ computers/drives with broken change line. But who
knows?
>> Ok. How I may/should test the FDAPM? Where it (URL)?
EA> http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/fdapm-16apr2004.zip
I try test it.
>> 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.
EA> Okay, but was that before he released 2035 or after?
I don't remember precisely, but floppy.asm from kernel.tgz marked at 9
april of 2004.
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