[Freedos-user] ASPI driver
Hi All, Is there an ASPI driver for FreeDOS? Where can I get it? Also, where can I get the specs of that driver so that I can write a program and access a SCSI hard disk? Thanks Basudeb - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ASPI driver
Thanks Charles, looks bad for me, as I have to use FreeDOS for different machines and not only one. And they are of various sizes. Can I conclude that FreeDOS does not support SCSI drives thru ASPI ? Or have I misunderstood the answer? Basudeb - Original Message From: charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, March 5, 2007 9:56:31 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] ASPI driver basudeb gupta wrote: Hi All, Is there an ASPI driver for FreeDOS? Where can I get it? Also, where can I get the specs of that driver so that I can write a program and access a SCSI hard disk? Thanks Basudeb I've had the same problem with FreeDOS not accessing hard drives. From what I can tell by testing various programs under FreeDOS and MS-DOS is that the FD fdisk program does it's own thing and fails to recognize a SCSI drive unless you issue set FFD_VERSION=6 at the command prompt (without quotas). This won't help you however. This basically puts fdisk in a type of 16-bit mode and the limitations of FAT 16 partitions only. In other words no larger than 2GB FAT 16 partitions. But it gets even worse. The FreeDOS kernel doesn't seem to want anything to do with the SCSI int 13h extensions and completely ignores them. This also includes loading an ASPI driver. So until this gets addressed us SCSI users are SOL when it comes to FreeDOS. Correct me if I'm wrong. BTW what is your system specs including SCSI card. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ASPI driver
Thanks for the help. I had a few simple requirements: a) an ASPI.SYS for FREEDOS that I can use to access SCSI drives b) reference manual for this, so that I can write some programs to access the devices thru ASPI.SYS Unfortunately, all these links are not giving me this. Can anyone help? Regards, Basudeb - Original Message From: tomleem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 5:46:47 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] ASPI driver basudeb gupta wrote: Hi All, Is there an ASPI driver for FreeDOS? Where can I get it? Also, where can I get the specs of that driver so that I can write a program and access a SCSI hard disk? Thanks Basudeb http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/AtapiCDD http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/USB Is this it? TomLeeM http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=ASPI+driver+for+FreeDOSbtnG=Google+Search - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ASPI driver
Thanks but I need an ASPIxxx.SYS that works with Freedos to try this code. Any help in that will be appreciated. I would like to try with an Adaptec card. Regards, Basudeb - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 9:06:47 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] ASPI driver ; highlevel ASPI code_seg segment assume cs:code_seg,ds:code_seg org 100h main proc near entry: jmp start ; ; data area ; scsicommand struc code db 2 status db 0 adapter db 0 reqflag db 24 resrved db 0 targid db 1 logunit db 0 xferlen dw 0,0 senslen db 0 dataptrodw 0 dataptrsdw 0 srbptro dw 0 srbptrs dw 0 cdblen db ? hoststat db 0 targstat db 0 postaddo dw 0 postadds dw 0 workspac db 34 dup (?) scsicommand ends SCSI db 'SCSIMGR$',0 ASPI dw 2 dup (?) SRB db 58 dup (0) cards db ? curcard db ? curdev db ? bTen db 10 cardat db ? cardflag db ? ; ; code area ; start: mov ax,3D00h lea dx,SCSI int 21h jnc haveaspi mov ah,09 lea dx,nope int 21h mov ax,4C01h int 21h nope db 13,10,'No ASPI Manager Found',13,10,'$' haveaspi: push ax mov bx,ax mov ax,4402h lea dx,ASPI mov cx,4 int 21h pop bx mov ah,3Eh int 21h nextcard: call callaspi jne btdt mov al,SRB[8] mov cards,al mov al,SRB[9] mov cardat,al mov si,offset SRB+10 mov di,offset EchoBuffer mov cx,8 rep movsw lea dx,CRLF mov ah,09 int 21h btdt: mov si,offset SRB+26 mov di,offset EchoBuffer mov cx,8 rep movsw lea dx,EchoBuffer mov ah,09 int 21h mov al,SRB[2] mov curcard,al mov curdev,0 nextdev: call clearSRB mov SRB[0],1 mov al,curcard mov SRB[2],al mov al,curdev mov SRB[8],al call callaspi call showdev inc curdev cmp curdev,8 jne nextdev mov al,curcard inc al cmp al,cards je lastcard call clearSRB mov SRB[2],al jmp short nextcard lastcard: mov ax,4C00h int 21h CRLF db 13,10 EchoBuffer db 16 dup(?), 13, 10,'$' None db 'None' Ctrl db 'Card' main endp DevBuffer db 'ID #xx Type - ',13,10,'$' showdevproc near mov cardflag,0 mov al,curdev cmp al,cardat jne adevice mov cardflag,1 adevice: xor ah,ah div bTen add ax,3030h lea di, devbuffer[4] stosw cmp cardflag,1 jne notcard lea si,Ctrl jmp short notnum notcard: cmp SRB[1],82h jne shownum lea si,None notnum:lea di,DevBuffer[16] movsw movsw jmp short nonum shownum: mov al,SRB[10] xor ah,ah div bTen add ax,3030h lea di,DevBuffer[16] stosw mov ax,2020h stosw nonum: mov ah,09 lea dx,devbuffer int 21h ret showdevendp callaspi proc near push ds lea bx,SRB push bx lea bx,ASPI call dword ptr[bx] add sp,4 cmp SRB[2],0 ret callaspi endp clearSRB proc near push ax xor ax,ax lea di,SRB mov cx,29 rep stosw pop ax ret clearSRB endp code_seg ends end entry Original Message Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] ASPI driver From: basudeb gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, March 05, 2007 6:34 pm To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Thanks for the help. I had a few simple requirements: a) an ASPI.SYS for FREEDOS that I can use to access SCSI drives b) reference manual for this, so that I can write some programs to access the devices thru ASPI.SYS Unfortunately, all these links are not giving me this. Can anyone help? Regards, Basudeb - Original Message From: tomleem
[Freedos-user] How to make a FreeDOS Bootable CD
Hi all, I am a new user of FreeDOS trying to port my MSDOS 6.2 based application to FreeDOS. We need to make a FreedOS Bootable CD with the required drivers. Now the CD I get downloaded from the site has options only to install on hard disk or boot from CD without any drivers. Now how do I get a proper bootable FreeDOS CD with drivers? I am sure this has been done over and over many times already. Or is it not possible? Is it a limitation of FreeDOS? Please help. Thanks Basudeb - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Lan Card drivers
Hi Gerry, Thanks for the analysis of the problem. By Preboot I was meaning an application that can work in DOS mode but access all devices for remote system debugging and testing. FreeDOS is fine but if it cannot access most of the latest LAN cards, it will be a problem. As the network cards will belong to customers it can't be chosen by my application., I need to be sure that FreeDOS can take care of most LAN cards. - Original Message From: Gerry Hickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2006 2:57:01 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Lan Card drivers Hi, If you buy hardware in a managed way (e.g. HP, IBM, Dell) I don't think you'll have any problems getting FreeDOS to pull o/s builds from servers. I use this to do Windows 2000 builds on a big network; it's very reliable and fast. However, I'm not sure there a future in this for a few reasons: 1. Windows Vista has a new deployment system, it's a seriously bloated o/s and pulling an image over DOS with LanMan and messing around with FAT conversions and cluster sizes might not be viable. I don't know for sure but it would not surprise me if Microsoft try to scupper this kind of build strategy. 2. If you run Windows 2003 servers you could find it impossible to connect to your server share from FreeDOS network clients for two reasons: a) Kerberos Authentication b) SMB Signing In theory tools such as WinPE get round these kinds of problems in that you can write straight to NTFS with the correct cluster size and you can connect using Kerberos and SMB signing (at least in theory). When you say bootable application it's hard to know what you mean; if you mean a real-mode 16bit DOS app then FreeDOS should be perfect. If you mean a 32/64bit Windows app then that's another story. basudeb gupta wrote: Hello All, I have to decide between FreeDos. WinPE as the platform for a bootable application. Are the latest lan card drivers available on FreeDOS? Is there a list of supported lan cards somewhere? Thanks Basudeb --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Lan Card drivers
Hello All, I have to decide between FreeDos. WinPE as the platform for a bootable application. Are the latest lan card drivers available on FreeDOS? Is there a list of supported lan cards somewhere? Thanks Basudeb --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Newbie: How do I make a FreeDOS bootable CD?
Hello all: I need to make a FreeDOS bootable CD with one of my programs(.COM) to run automatically after booting. Can some kind soul tell me what are the exact steps I should follow? Even a link will be welcome. Thanks Basudeb --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese
Hello, Does anyone know what is the FreeDos japanese version? I have heard there is a version to be run from floppy which works in japanese mode. Is it true? Thanks for all the help so far. Basudeb - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 5:32:22 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese Hi Basudeb, Not that I am too familiar with Asian locale, mainly due to my lack of knowledge and also lack of hardware for testing, but here it is what I know of it. I am afraid that what Henrique is telling you is only half of the game that one would need to get a fully Japanese system. DBCS is not currently supported, as far as I know, nor for Kernel, neither DISPLAY.SYS (currently DISPLAY.EXE) or other drivers, so there's no Open source FreeDOS way to get Japanese or any other Asian scripts printed on the screen. Having said that, the things are a bit better for Japanese than for other Asian languages such as Chinese or Taiwanese, because it seems that in the usual way of doing this that I was informed by some Japanese helpers of mine, the keyboard driver can just emit one-single characters, and there's another component, the Front-End Processor (FEP) that would bridge between the single-byte keyboard driver and the DBCS system. Unfortunately, I don't know of any open source FEP to be used, but fortunately it was a very slight change to be done to current FD-KEYB to support this, and that I did in the previous version. Henrique composed the Japanese keyboard layout inside one such KEYBOARD.SYS file, and unfortunately we didn't manage to have it tested in an integral test, although unitary tests showed KEYB+this layout did as it should. Regarding the compiler, each tool is compiled under a particular one, and you can compile the kernel itself with several. If I had to choose, I'd say OpenWatcom. And finally about the interrupt list, there isn't AFAIK a list of what has been implemented and what hasn't. There is a list over there that I have seen, but I don't think it's updated. Source is your friend ;-) Aitor Bom dia Henrique, Thank you and other list members very much for your kind reply and encouragement. I did get some angry snorts from a particular honorable member, but I guess that is part of initiation rites into any new group :-) Going by your suggestion, I got the jp106.txt fiel and am consulting my Japanese friends to interpret the file. But I need a little more hand-holding to help me on the right track. a) What is the standard C compiler that I should get for FreeDOS? b) Assuming FreeDOS is supposed to be an implementation of MSDOS 6.22 where do I get the manual/function descriptions for FreeDOS now? For example, can I use int 21 kind of calls and if so, which is the authentic manual for all int 21 functions? c) When I installed FreeDOS , I selected Japanese mode. That came up as Japanese text during multi-boot. But after that it is all English. Is it OK or I am going wrong somewhere? Thanks again Basudeb - Original Message From: Henrique Peron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 00:49:07 Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese Namaste Basudeb, first of all, welcome. Second, there aren't such things like stupid questions. Feel comfortable to ask whatever you want. :-) The point is, you would need a special program to display japanese. For the time being, FreeDOS in itself is only able to handle languages written with latin, greek, cyrillic, armenian and georgian scripts. Nevertheless, there is a japanese readme file (JP106.TXT) on the KPDOS pack. You'll find it here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kblayout/ Download the 22X package, which contains the library files. The 22S file is meant for users which intend to modify/develop their own keyboard layout files, which seems not to be your case. I hope that helps. Henrique - Original Message - From: basudeb gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 1:06 PM Subject: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese |I am a raw first time user. Please excuse me for stupid questions. | | I basically want to have a multi-lingual program running under Freedos. My first doubt is how to select language and display Japanese. | | Please help and let me take my first small steps. | | Thanks | Basudeb | | | | --- | This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files | for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes | searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! | http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click | ___ | Freedos-user mailing
Re: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese
Thanks. This has been very useful tips. Now getting back to my original question: How do I display Japanese characters in a C program? Suppose I get a text file which has unicode text in Japanese and is displayed in XP as Japanese characters if I load it using Wordpad say, How do I display this in FreeDOS or WatCom C? Any hint will be greatly appreciated. Basudeb - Original Message From: Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:50:52 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese a) What is the standard C compiler that I should get for FreeDOS? I would highly recommend OpenWatcom 1.4, but if you have limited space or are looking for simplicity, Pacific C or a free version of Turbo C is available (Pacific C produces the smallest code usually, btw, with Turbo C and then Watcom C following). b) Assuming FreeDOS is supposed to be an implementation of MSDOS 6.22 where do I get the manual/function descriptions for FreeDOS now? For example, can I use int 21 kind of calls and if so, which is the authentic manual for all int 21 functions? Four words: Ralph Brown's Interrupt List That is all the documentation you'll ever need (imho) for int 21 functions. -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37alloc_id865op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] How to display Japanese
I am a raw first time user. Please excuse me for stupid questions. I basically want to have a multi-lingual program running under Freedos. My first doubt is how to select language and display Japanese. Please help and let me take my first small steps. Thanks Basudeb --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese
Bom dia Henrique, Thank you and other list members very much for your kind reply and encouragement. I did get some angry snorts from a particular honorable member, but I guess that is part of initiation rites into any new group :-) Going by your suggestion, I got the jp106.txt fiel and am consulting my Japanese friends to interpret the file. But I need a little more hand-holding to help me on the right track. a) What is the standard C compiler that I should get for FreeDOS? b) Assuming FreeDOS is supposed to be an implementation of MSDOS 6.22 where do I get the manual/function descriptions for FreeDOS now? For example, can I use int 21 kind of calls and if so, which is the authentic manual for all int 21 functions? c) When I installed FreeDOS , I selected Japanese mode. That came up as Japanese text during multi-boot. But after that it is all English. Is it OK or I am going wrong somewhere? Thanks again Basudeb - Original Message From: Henrique Peron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 00:49:07 Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese Namaste Basudeb, first of all, welcome. Second, there aren't such things like stupid questions. Feel comfortable to ask whatever you want. :-) The point is, you would need a special program to display japanese. For the time being, FreeDOS in itself is only able to handle languages written with latin, greek, cyrillic, armenian and georgian scripts. Nevertheless, there is a japanese readme file (JP106.TXT) on the KPDOS pack. You'll find it here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kblayout/ Download the 22X package, which contains the library files. The 22S file is meant for users which intend to modify/develop their own keyboard layout files, which seems not to be your case. I hope that helps. Henrique - Original Message - From: basudeb gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 1:06 PM Subject: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese |I am a raw first time user. Please excuse me for stupid questions. | | I basically want to have a multi-lingual program running under Freedos. My first doubt is how to select language and display Japanese. | | Please help and let me take my first small steps. | | Thanks | Basudeb | | | | --- | This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files | for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes | searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! | http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click | ___ | Freedos-user mailing list | Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user | | --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
