[Freedos-user] LBACache and Tickle question

2004-09-01 Thread 16 BIT
I wanted to do some work on a set of floppy disks, things like format some and check files and etc. I thought I'd try LBACache with the FLOP option and Tickle to make things faster. I discovered that things like the DIR command and CHKDSK were not reading the current disk in the drive, rather so

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Memory swapping and DOS service problem

2004-09-01 Thread Andy Peeters
Eric Auer wrote: Hi Andy, we found that RBIL is indeed wrong: Sector numbers are actually 0 based for int 25/26, and the FreeDOS kernel treats them as 0 based, too. You should debug your program a bit interactively. It will be interesting to find out why FreeDOS needs the "DIR" first. Please compar

Re: [Freedos-user] Memory swapping and DOS service problem

2004-09-01 Thread Andy Peeters
Luchezar Georgiev wrote: (Hey, aren't we like paleontologists trying to decipher the next fossil? ;-) Hmm, science ... All that digging, trying and searching for answers, I like it :-) Now, some other weird thing is why I'm finally able to read disk sectors. Before I start reading sectors after a

Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Bi-monthly Reminder

2004-09-01 Thread John Price
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 07:38:14AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > Hi John. A while back, I cleaned up the FreeDOS FD-DOC project, and > moved most (all?) of the mini-HOWTOs into the SourceForge documentation > system. The remind.txt file went away, at least from the URL you have. > > Email me off-li

Re: [Freedos-user] Extra Gmail Invites

2004-09-01 Thread Yann Bénigot
Frederick Thomas a écrit : Got a couple of Gmail invites I do not need. If you want 1GB email account then just reply to this email and I will send one. Have about two or three left. regards, fm On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:38:02 +0200 (MEST), Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Andy, we found that

Re: [Freedos-user] Extra Gmail Invites

2004-09-01 Thread Frederick Thomas
Got a couple of Gmail invites I do not need. If you want 1GB email account then just reply to this email and I will send one. Have about two or three left. regards, fm On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:38:02 +0200 (MEST), Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Andy, we found that RBIL is indeed wrong:

[Freedos-user] Re: Memory swapping and DOS service problem

2004-09-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Andy, we found that RBIL is indeed wrong: Sector numbers are actually 0 based for int 25/26, and the FreeDOS kernel treats them as 0 based, too. You should debug your program a bit interactively. It will be interesting to find out why FreeDOS needs the "DIR" first. Please compare a few kernel v

Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Bi-monthly Reminder

2004-09-01 Thread Jim Hall
Hi John. A while back, I cleaned up the FreeDOS FD-DOC project, and moved most (all?) of the mini-HOWTOs into the SourceForge documentation system. The remind.txt file went away, at least from the URL you have. Email me off-list, and we'll arrange for another automated reminder. Or maybe I c

Re: [Freedos-user] Memory swapping and DOS service problem

2004-09-01 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Hallo Andy, Now, the word 'MSDOS' is present almost at the beginning of a 'bootsector' of a floppy disk. Correct? Well, when I use DX = 0 the program reads the first sector, not the last one and I can check it thanks to the word 'MSDOS'. I even tried with the Debug commands: 'L 100 0 0 1' and '