[Freedos-kernel] DMA boundary error re bugs 698, 1952

2006-12-04 Thread Jackie McBride
Hello, All: I'm hoping this is an appropriate place to discuss this--if not, please forgive a newby! I'm a list owner myself I definitely don't want to wear out my welcome before I even get started, but looking thru the archives kind of made me think maybe this topic would be ok. One of the

Re: [Freedos-kernel] DMA boundary error re bugs 698, 1952

2006-12-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jackie, basically other DOSes include a workaround to protect programs from themselves when they try to do disk access with buffers which cross multiples of 64k address-wise, while FreeDOS does not, yet, have such a workaround in the kernel. As far as I know, that part would be written in