Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd
I don't know about others, but I for one would find a udf driver *extremely* helpful. Sometimes, when you have a cd/dvdR disk, it's tough to tell if it has anything on it, and being able to boot from such a disk would be worlds better than cramming a full system backup with only limited files to get you started on a cd, when you could store the entire boot opartition on a single disk if udf capabilities were available. My vote is to do it. :) Of course, that's easy for me to say, I won't be the one writing the thing (I don't know enough about either assembly or udf formats to help with this one) hSure wish I did though. -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Bloček in DOS - gives an runtime error
202 range overflow in some variable You've done with this: 1. Copy kasmar.exe to kasmarold.exe 2. Removed the original Kasmar files, which confuses the underscore line 3. Launched cwsdpmi.exe 4. Launched kasmar.exe The following error is detected when launching an version copied from the Blocek folder: EMM386 has detected error #I7 in an application at memory address F900:0003. To minimize the chance of data loss, EMM386 has halted your computer. For more information, consult your documentation. To restart your computer, press ENTER. If you press the Enter key then the computer won't restart so you have to restart manually. On 4/25/10, tae wong wrote: > Hi all. When you open this font with an Greek yot sign you get this: > Runtime error 202 at $0006A117 > $0006A117 > $0004A5E8 > $0004AA97 > $0005245F > $0004A9BC > $0001AD6F > $0001A293 > $00015CA8 > $56F7 > > On 12/7/09, tae wong wrote: >> Hi >> you installed Bloček in XP Secumize Edition with an zip file and if >> you try to launch it the program gives an runtime problem with the >> program but if you want to make compatible with DOS you could fix the >> runtime errors by contacting the author who made Bloček. >> please help!!! >> > -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd
Hi Johnson, >>Sure... UIDE, gcdrom, gxcdrom (or was it xgcdrom?), >>should be no problem. If you boot from it, you can >>also use bios as driver (plus eltorito,sys). Same >>for SATA DVD and BD drives, but remember that our >>SHSUCDX and MSCDEX both support only ISO9660, not >>UDF formatted disks :-) Does anybody have "UDFCDX"? > Jack found that UDF will make the SHSUCDX very big, so he left it. Thanks for the warning, but I think people would still be happy to have UDF abilities, even if they have to boot with a big driver. They can still keep it out of their normal boot config and put it into a config sys menu item. You can compare it with MSCLIENT for using network drives: The driver is big, but sometimes it is worth the memory to get a special job done :-) As you can guess, I would suggest to put UDF not into a common SHSUCDX but into a "special edition" UDF-CDX. Alain, you started the thread, do you think such a big UDF CDEX driver would be useful? Or do you think that it would indeed be too big and too complex for most? Eric -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd
Op 25-4-2010 14:23, Neal Weissman schreef: > Eric, > i am a stranger in a strange land. How can i learn this lingo: > "UDFCDX" "gcdrom" "gcxdrom" "SHSUCDX" "MSCDEX" "eltorito.sys" ... ? > Let's see, nearly 2 decades ago Microsoft introduced a driver called MSCDEX to allow you to gain access to a cd-rom disc in your optical drive, as long as the cd contents was in ISO9660 format (most normal CDs). Also NWCDEX existed, from another DOS manufacturer. They needed a driver to be loaded in config.sys system file first, usually this driver was delivered together with your purchased CD DRIVE unit. Quite some time later, on windows 95/98 bootdisks, Microsoft provided a driver from a CD manufacturer by default. It was pretty generic/universal for most IDE (ATAPI) drives. At the same time there was also the Acer (nowadays Benq? or Acer again) universal working driver called VIDE-CDD.SYS which had a lower memory footprint. To make a long story short: Jack R Ellis has had a number of drivers developed for access to optical units and discs, most of this software has sourcecode available. His latest is UIDE.SYS which should support CD drives also on Serial-ATA (possibly in AHCI-mode, or just IDE-emulation). FreeDOS earlier already had a replacement for MSCDEX, it's called SHSUCDX. Still only allowing access to ISO9660 discs. UDF is a file format for optical discs most used on DVD movies I think, and allows more than ISO9660. A version of SHSUCDX with support for UDF is what you might call UDFCDX, it doesn't exist yet. Additionally there's much more to write about CD unit support (ASPI, SCSI, USB, CD writing, packetwriting, emulation, ramdisks, bootable CD using the config.sys ELTORITO.SYS driver, etc). You can load the CD support in the historically correct DOS way by installing 1 driver in config.sys ( DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\UIDE.SYS /D:FDCD0001 for example) and then loading the CDEX ( SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001) with same 'block device name' (in this case the FDCD0001 name). Or, use a modern commandline device driver loader program named DEVLOAD: DEVLOAD C:\FDOS\BIN\UIDE.SYS /D:FDCD0001 SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001 -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd
Eric, i am a stranger in a strange land. How can i learn this lingo: "UDFCDX" "gcdrom" "gcxdrom" "SHSUCDX" "MSCDEX" "eltorito.sys" ... ? On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Johnson Lam wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:02:20 +0200, you wrote: > > Eric, > > >Sure... UIDE, gcdrom, gxcdrom (or was it xgcdrom?), > >should be no problem. If you boot from it, you can > >also use bios as driver (plus eltorito,sys). Same > >for SATA DVD and BD drives, but remember that our > >SHSUCDX and MSCDEX both support only ISO9660, not > >UDF formatted disks :-) Does anybody have "UDFCDX"? > > Jack found that UDF will make the SHSUCDX very big, so he left it. > > > Rgds, > Johnson. > > > -- > ___ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd
> Any advantage using AHCI? > No, but some notebooks lack in BIOS the option "Handle CD-ROM devices in legacy IDE mode" so you have to use AHCI. -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:47:28 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Hi, >> UIDE works with SATA. >Realy? I am not sure about it. Of course, with read cache to improve efficiency. It's working under SATA long time ago, but only BIOS in "Native IDE mode", not AHCI. >But definitely you should try GCDROM >(http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=gcdrom) Do you know Jack and me already ask GCDROM's author Mark Tsai to provide the source code? It have no source code at initial release. Jack found that the GCDROM can be better and smaller, so he rewrite everything base on his own code base and become UIDE. >or driver AHCI.SYS downlodable Hewlett Packard site: >http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/S...p;swLang=13&taskId=135&mode=4&idx=0 > >(extract archive and use the AHCI.SYS file - it is a DOS CD-rom driver) Any advantage using AHCI? Rgds, Johnson. -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:02:20 +0200, you wrote: Eric, >Sure... UIDE, gcdrom, gxcdrom (or was it xgcdrom?), >should be no problem. If you boot from it, you can >also use bios as driver (plus eltorito,sys). Same >for SATA DVD and BD drives, but remember that our >SHSUCDX and MSCDEX both support only ISO9660, not >UDF formatted disks :-) Does anybody have "UDFCDX"? Jack found that UDF will make the SHSUCDX very big, so he left it. Rgds, Johnson. -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Bloček in DOS - gives an runtime error
Hello Tae! I am the author of Blocek. The error 202 means range overflow in some variable. But I didn't understand whether you have your problem with some font file or with some document or certain combination of document containing some char and font. It would be best if you send me the BLOCEK.CFG file and the files you have the proglems with. Also make sure I are using the last version - check the website http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz > Původní zpráva > Od: tae wong > Předmět: Re: [Freedos-devel] Bloček in DOS - gives an runtime error > Datum: 25.4.2010 05:55:52 > > Hi all. When you open this font with an Greek yot sign you get this: > Runtime error 202 at $0006A117 > $0006A117 > $0004A5E8 > $0004AA97 > $0005245F > $0004A9BC > $0001AD6F > $0001A293 > $00015CA8 > $56F7 > > On 12/7/09, tae wong wrote: > > Hi > > you installed Bloček in XP Secumize Edition with an zip file and if > > you try to launch it the program gives an runtime problem with the > > program but if you want to make compatible with DOS you could fix the > > runtime errors by contacting the author who made Bloček. > > please help!!! > > > > -- > ___ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > > -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel