Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-11 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:49:17 -0800 Jason Dictos [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: To Jason: take care not to *write* anything to the disk via int 13h. I still don't think I understand why you are using FreeBSD for this specific purpose. Why if you just spend time escaping from the OS?

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-11 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:14:03 -0500 (EST) Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Gee whiz, just let dd(1) do it for you. It can seek to any position and read any number of bytes of a disk. That's what I meant by `shellscript':). If it gets ornery, set the block size to 1 byte -

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 11), Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko said: However in dos we have garanteed hard drive support via int13 (Well almost garanteed, but if an os can boot of the computer, we can access the disk), The hard disk is not the only device you can boot off. Consider floppies,

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:12:31 -0800 Jason Dictos [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Aren't the nodes /dev/ad[0-9] (ide) or /dev/da[0-9] (scsi/usb) created by their device drivers, i.e. protected mode device drives? That would mean that I would have to make sure that the hardware is supported by

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
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RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Dictos
: Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:12:31 -0800 Jason Dictos [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Aren't the nodes /dev/ad[0-9] (ide) or /dev/da[0-9] (scsi/usb) created by their device drivers, i.e. protected mode device drives? That would mean that I would have to make

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Dictos
what I was looking for. Thanks, -Jason -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running --Signature

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Dictos
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:51 AM To: Jason Dictos Cc: Dan Nelson; ''[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ' Subject: Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:12:31 -0800 Jason Dictos [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Aren't the nodes /dev/ad[0-9] (ide) or /dev/da[0-9

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:49:17AM -0800, Jason Dictos wrote: To Jason: take care not to *write* anything to the disk via int 13h. I still don't think I understand why you are using FreeBSD for this specific purpose. Why if you just spend time escaping from the OS? We actually _like_

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Dictos
Point well taken. -Jason -Original Message- From: Erik Trulsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:24 AM To: Jason Dictos Cc: 'Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko'; Dan Nelson; ''[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ' Subject: Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running On Wed, Mar 10, 2004

Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-09 Thread Jason Dictos
Hello, I'm investigating what resources are out there for accessing bios addressable devices while BSD is up and running. The situation is this, currently we licenses Caldera DOS for a program we wrote which uses the int13 extensions to manipulate the systems hard drive (i.e. to recover

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-09 Thread Jason Dictos
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Dictos Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 2:04 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Using int 13 while BSD is running Hello, I'm investigating what resources are out there for accessing bios addressable devices

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-09 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:03:34 -0800 Jason Dictos [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: The situation is this, currently we licenses Caldera DOS for a program we wrote which uses the int13 extensions to manipulate the systems hard drive (i.e. to recover partition tables and what not). This forces

RE: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-09 Thread Jason Dictos
to the drive the system booted from, and any other bios addressable device, without having to load any driver for the hardware. -Jason -Original Message- From: Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko To: Jason Dictos Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: 3/9/2004 9:12 PM Subject: Re: Using int 13 while BSD

Re: Using int 13 while BSD is running

2004-03-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 09), Jason Dictos said: I'm investigating what resources are out there for accessing bios addressable devices while BSD is up and running. The situation is this, currently we licenses Caldera DOS for a program we wrote which uses the int13 extensions to manipulate the