Hi!
Odd that only BOOTING is limited to the first 1.3 GB on the IDE. I agree that running Windows for Workgroups (apart from safe mode, possibly without network) is hard to get working with FreeDOS. I guess you could try with EDR-DOS kernel to still have FAT32 and LBA. Or maybe with DPMIONE pre-loaded to ease the switch to protected mode? I also guess you had to hide part of your RAM to get WfW to work? Probably switch it to DOS disk access because it could be IDE-only and CHS- and FAT16-only otherwise? One method to run Win32 apps on DOS would be HX RT and HX GUI by Japheth, but that only supports relatively simple full-screen apps, not multitasking etc. I am of course curious which Windows apps you use frequently. Does QEMU itself have an issue with FreeDOS? You can use FreeDOS apps and probably many drivers with MS DOS kernel and WfW 3.11 (excluding JEMM386/JEMMEX). However, as long as you are stuck with MS DOS 6 kernel, you are stuck with FAT16 and CHS. Which is why EDR DOS should be interesting. Or, as said, Win98's "MS DOS 7". No need to install Win98 for that, but of course you should have a Win98 license, not just a MS DOS 6 one. Of have you tried to run WfW 3.11 on Win98's MS DOS 7 and experienced problems with that? > Because when the SATA drive is present and the IDE drive is on the > secondary channel, no DOS, not even FreeDOS, will even see the IDE Interesting, but would you need the IDE when you can use the larger SSD? Only MS DOS 6 seems to need IDE in your system, not other WfW 3.11 compatible DOS. What do UHDD and LBACACHE say about your drives in their start-up messages in the different configurations which your combination of controllers can offer? Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
