Hi Thomas, > I'm building a freeware HDD disk wiper, checking and cloning application. > It runs fine with FreeDos except that I get some errors messages when a > disk is not partitioned. Since I'm not relying on any DOS calls for HDD > access and the nature of the program I would prefer the kernel would > not touch the HDDs at all.
You can manipulate initdisk.c, in particular BIOS_nrdrives() and the loops from 0 to nHardDisk to make FreeDOS ignore all your harddisks. For compilation, you should have NASM, UPX and the OpenWatcom C compiler. A tiny distro of the latter should be on http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ somewhere... :-). You can get the current sources via SVN, of download the 2038 zip if a somewhat older kernel is acceptable for you. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel