Re: [Freedos-kernel] TDSK volume locking failure

2004-04-17 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Steve Gibson wrote: Just a note that the 2032 kernel fails volume locking on the tdsk.exe turbodisk device. mov bl, CurrentDosDevice; 1-based current device xor bh, bh ; lock level 0 mov cx, 084Ah ; category / lock logical mov

Re: [Freedos-kernel] TDSK volume locking failure

2004-04-17 Thread Steve Gibson
Hi Bart, Just a note that the 2032 kernel fails volume locking on the tdsk.exe turbodisk device. mov bl, CurrentDosDevice; 1-based current device xor bh, bh ; lock level 0 mov cx, 084Ah ; category / lock logical mov ax, DOS_IOCTL SHL 8 +

[Freedos-kernel] FORCELBA Kernel option

2004-04-17 Thread Steve Gibson
Folks, Could someone briefly explain the function of the kernel's FORCELBA option? The command shown by sys.com is Always use LBA if possible. So I suppose I'd like to understand why or when the kernel would not use LBA when it's available? Is it, for example, a matter of not using LBA if

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FORCELBA Kernel option

2004-04-17 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Steve Gibson wrote: Could someone briefly explain the function of the kernel's FORCELBA option? The command shown by sys.com is Always use LBA if possible. So I suppose I'd like to understand why or when the kernel would not use LBA when it's available? If a partition