Hi,

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. Hardware is a year 1995 486-DX4 100, hardly
remarkable at its time.

Cheers,

Dimitris


On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote:

> > I keep getting the error dma crosses 64k boundary when using tools
> > like rawrite3 or hard drive manufacturers tools floppy creation
> > software. I need to boot from Windows 98 bootdisk to get rid of it.
>
> > Please let me know if there is a way to get rid of this problem under
> FreeDOS.
>
> MSDOS redirects int 13 to an internal driver, detects DMA access crossing
> a 64k boundary,
> and avoids it.
>
> FreeDOS ddoes not do this; sorry.
>
> there was no need to do this so far; IMO rawrite3 could/should handle
> this by itself. of course, software is usually only tested against
> MSDOS, so there is little motivation to do so for rawrite3
> programmers.
>
> I'm still surprised this comes up today, and not 15 years ago.
> do you have remarkable hardware?
>
> Tom
>
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