Re: [Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-21 Thread Robert Riebisch
Michael Reichenbach wrote: > I was curious if any SCSI drivers could work and created that disk > http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/scsitool/ with all SCSI drivers but most of > them are for PCI SCSI cards and therefore none was working. Why do you think, that SCSI drivers could work for SATA controller

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-21 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Robert Riebisch schrieb: > Michael Reichenbach wrote: > >> I was curious if any SCSI drivers could work and created that disk >> http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/scsitool/ with all SCSI drivers but most of >> them are for PCI SCSI cards and therefore none was working. > > Why do you think, that SCSI dr

[Freedos-user] Tiny Kernel incompatibility introduced in 2038?

2008-12-21 Thread Japheth
Hello, in the latest FreeDOS kernels (from 03/2008 and 09/2007, AFAIU they are called 2038 and 2038pre) there might be a tiny incompatibility concerning the Ctrl-C handling. As a test case I use this version of the FTE editor: http://www.japheth.de/Download/FTE-HX.zip Once a text file has bee

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-21 Thread Robert Riebisch
Michael Reichenbach wrote: > I didn't think it, it was just try and error. It could have worked for > the same reason the eSATA PCI card is compatible with my BIOS if booted > "SCSI". This is a false conclusion. ;-) In your BIOS setup the setting is just *wrongly* labeled with "SCSI", because at

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-21 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Robert Riebisch schrieb: > Michael Reichenbach wrote: > >> I didn't think it, it was just try and error. It could have worked for >> the same reason the eSATA PCI card is compatible with my BIOS if booted >> "SCSI". > > This is a false conclusion. ;-) In your BIOS setup the setting is just > *wro

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-21 Thread Robert Riebisch
Michael Reichenbach wrote: > Yes it's compatible to something like BIOS expansion. > > For the same reason it could have been possible that it's also > compatible to SCSI. SCSI drivers provide an Int13h layer extension while accessing the SCSI controller's on-board chip at a very low level. It's

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-21 Thread Ray Davison
Michael Reichenbach wrote: > Do you know any DOS drivers for SATA controllers / harddisk? I have a machine that is using UIDE.SYS to access a SATA CD/DVD. I don't currently have a SATA HDD in a machine but I have a SATA HDD in a USB box that I could pull and plug in to a desktop machine. Ray

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-21 Thread Alex Buell
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:28:12 +0100, I waved a wand and this message magically appears in front of Robert Riebisch: > > For the same reason it could have been possible that it's also > > compatible to SCSI. > > SCSI drivers provide an Int13h layer extension while accessing the > SCSI controller'

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne works!

2008-12-21 Thread Blair Campbell
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:38 PM, kurt godel wrote: > Ok, > downloaded the driver, did it's autoexec, did Arachne; soooweet! On the air! > The arachnoid even incorporates > the driver into the autoexec. Just one more dumb question: how to enable > cookies in the arachne browser? > I get to google o