Hi all, please check: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/comdrive-analysis.txt.gz ... and tell me how to make (either by fixing FreeDOS or comdrive or both) this potentially very useful tool work with FreeDOS. Thanks! Download URL for the program itself (10k download) is in the txt, too.
COMDRIVE 1.1 (Shareware by EnterTec - does that still exist?) is a device driver which can fetch bpb and sectors from remote drives, to make the remote drive visible locally (read-only). It can also send sectors from arbitrary FAT1x local drives to a remote computer. You connect 2 PCs, both with COMDRIVE loaded, over a null modem cabel on com1 or com2. The included SEL tool allows you to select the remote drive letter to be used. Problem: This only seems to work with floppy drives and "a bit" with ramdisks (Tyler knows more - I could only analyze, not test). Maybe something is broken with out BPB refresh logics? Or int 28 is sometimes called while DOS stacks are busy? Or the function 0x13 (generic IOCTL) implementation of the driver is too bad? Or the driver calls the get-bpb function (int 21.440d.0860) with not properly specified parameters? More details about possible problems can be found in my analysis text. Happy bug-hunting and thanks in advance! Eric ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
