Re: [Freedos-devel] Dumping C000-EFFF

2004-12-03 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Johnson Lam escribió: On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 06:52:17 +0300 (MSK), you wrote: Make next file (say, DUMP.DBG): d c000:0, d d000:0, d e000:0, q then run DEBUGDUMP.DBGDUMP.RES (without quotes) and you get dump in file DUMP.RES. Be carefull - its size is 970k, so archive it before

Re: [Freedos-devel] Dumping C000-EFFF

2004-12-03 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 10:56:35 +0100, you wrote: Hi Aitor, Am I miss anything? The redirection signs :-) Thanks for detail explain. I'll post the result in my homepage tonight (6 hours later), with other dumped data from different mainboard. Rgds, Johnson.

[Freedos-devel] Re: Dumping C000-EFFF

2004-12-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Johnson, talking about testing-in-emulation... Maybe also explained why there's no DOS client can mount a linux or SAMBA client. There are LTOOLS. Works like MTOOLS: Special programs, which are like copy, dir, ..., but which can use Linux drive letters. For Samba, I guess there is only

Re: [Freedos-devel] USBASPI.SYS and EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Erwin Veermans
If there is anybody who has tried to use USBASPI.SYS and EMM38, has had USBASPI.SYS reboot immediately with EMM386 loaded, AND wants to try a test EMM386 to get around the reboot, let me know and I'll send on a copy for you to try. Well, stupid of me I did not test that on my images. Because

Re: [Freedos-devel] Dumping C000-EFFF

2004-12-03 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3--2004 13:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnson Lam) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: JL to me ... How to dump c000-efff. Or any other information is useful? Make next file (say, DUMP.DBG): d c000:0, d d000:0, d e000:0, q then run DEBUGDUMP.DBGDUMP.RES (without quotes) and you get dump

Re: [Freedos-devel] Dumping C000-EFFF

2004-12-03 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3--2004 15:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnson Lam) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: JL If they're not for money or reputation, they should relax their limit. Dura lex, sed lex. Law applied notwitstanding, if there is (explicit) lost of money/reputation. Issue is only will someone raise sue or

RE: [Freedos-devel] USBASPI.SYS and EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread BA HCL
If there is anybody who has tried to use USBASPI.SYS and EMM38, has had USBASPI.SYS reboot immediately with EMM386 loaded, AND wants to try a test EMM386 to get around the reboot, let me know and I'll send on a copy for you to try. Hi Michael, I guess I was the only one posted the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Dumping C000-EFFF

2004-12-03 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 17:50:38 +0300 (MSK), you wrote: Hi, Dura lex, sed lex. Law applied notwitstanding, if there is (explicit) lost of money/reputation. Issue is only will someone raise sue or not. In western world like US, maybe someone will think carry out the law is most important, but

[Freedos-devel] Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi there, I have started reading EMM386.ASM (not the latest hot version, but the previous one, not many changes I assume), and although I haven't yet finished, I think I'd need a couple of hints on some things there. BTW quite an interesting pierce of work! :-) I suppose some of them are

Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Aitor, I leave the rest to michael, but (4) What are those special comments/marks for? What are they indicating? They are all over the sources ; (*-9-*) ; (#-9-#) that's historic, kind of pre-diff; it was published (printed) in several versions, and the later ones had ; (*-9-*)

Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: I can't answer anything emm386 specific, but maybe this'll help a little until Michael/Tom/? answers. Hi there, I have started reading EMM386.ASM (not the latest hot version, but the ... (2) What is the meaning of this structure? How much memory does it weight

[Freedos-devel] Re: Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, comment on 40:72 - MEM 0040h:0072h - POST RESET FLAG which can be 0, 1234h, and a few other values. I think this should be 40:7b instead - MEM 0040h:007Bh - INT 4Bh FLAGS (PS2 and newer) 5 set if Virtual DMA Spec supported [PS] (see INT 4B) 3 set if INT 4Bh intercepted and must

Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3--2004 19:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom ehlert) wrote to Aitor Santamara Merino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (5) In the startup of the driver, it is set 00AAh into memory 0040h:0072h, but I can't find references to this BIOS variable, what is that? te it's LPT4. and scince ther's no LPT4, it's abused

Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3--2004 19:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamara Merino) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ASM (2) What is the meaning of this structure? How much memory does it ASM weight actually, or how does the assembler determine that? (the bit that ASM I ignore is the (?)) ASM RES_STACK SEGMENT PARA USE16

Re: [Freedos-devel] Dumping C000-EFFF

2004-12-03 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:03:29 +0800, you wrote: Hi, Due to web server problem, I can't FTP into my account. The file will be available on my friends server: 1) HP (ASUS KL97-XV Rev 1.04) Pentium3-266MHz (No SCSI) http://home.thinkpat.com/~johnson/store/asus-kl97-xv.zip 2) Iwill XA 100plus -

Re: [Freedos-devel] Dumping C000-EFFF

2004-12-03 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4--2004 00:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnson Lam) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dura lex, sed lex. Law applied notwitstanding, if there is (explicit) lost of money/reputation. Issue is only will someone raise sue or not. JL In western world like US, maybe someone will think carry out the law

Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:12 PM 12/3/2004 +0100, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Hi there, I have started reading EMM386.ASM (not the latest hot version, but the previous one, not many changes I assume), and although I haven't yet finished, I think I'd need a couple of hints on some things there. BTW quite an

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
... It was more interesting to have ATAPICDD in NASM, but I am not sure if the port has the same maturity as the original MASM/TASM version. At least it helps to test patches for ATAPICDD that it can be compiled with free compilers / assemblers. But you still need spare time for that :-(. ...

Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Michael Devore escribió: As it is currently a quite active development project, any nontrivial changes to EMM386 unrelated to fixing a verified bug should be sync'ed through me or Tom. Unannounced code changes to EMM386 could make Michael cry and misbehave. Sure :) Aitor

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Kenneth J. Davis escribió: ... It was more interesting to have ATAPICDD in NASM, but I am not sure if the port has the same maturity as the original MASM/TASM version. At least it helps to test patches for ATAPICDD that it can be compiled with free compilers / assemblers. But you still need

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Aitor Santamaría Merino schreef: Could you extend a little bit on this? ATASPI for the ATAPI/ASPI layer and CDROM over it (which means I need to load two drivers, isn't it?), or ATASPI for ASPI CD-ROM, and CD-ROM for ATAPI or...? And in this case, CDROM will be the char device and ATASPI a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: ... actually current ATAPICDD, which is now split into cdrom.sys ataspi.sys to separate the CD code from the IDE/ATAPI code uses FASM. Could you extend a little bit on this? ATASPI for the ATAPI/ASPI layer and CDROM over it (which means I need to load two drivers,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Kenneth J. Davis schreef: As CD-ROMs are controlled by what are essentially SCSI packets over an ATA(IDE) interface, using ASPI makes a convenient method to separate them allowing me to use a SCSI card or existing CD driver for testing. Jeremy Quite smart thinking to split up the driver into

Re: [Freedos-devel] Dumping C000-EFFF

2004-12-03 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 00:07:55 +0300 (MSK), you wrote: Hi, I think, your local judges not think so (unless they are corrupted :). Judges may not. Before judges maybe :-) Sure, experienced lawyer may find very strange reasons to sue you. :) ;( For example: distribution of materials,

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS patch from Jason Hood?

2004-12-03 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, From Jason Hood's DOSLFN page: FreeDOS has a problem with extended DPBs, which causes problems with XMSDSK (DOSLFN thinks the RAMdisk is FAT32). Here is a FreeDOS patch and kernel (build 2034, NASM 0.98.38, Borland C++ 3.1, TLINK 7.01, 386) to fix it. Still have the bug in 2035a or