Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-04 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Gregg, > Boot from USB and it's there. I have a FreeDOS image for a 64 megabyte > module, which someone French setup for these thin clients. It will boot > just fine, but in French. Somehow it works around or ignores it hiding > or disabling the IDE controller. 1) Where did you get the FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-04 Thread E. Auer
Hi Greg, I don't need anything complicated for DOS, just configuring the 128 meg RAM for as much EMS as possible because the old software I want to run uses EMS not XMS, and USB support for reading files from flash drives. Getting the Realtek AC97 sound and Realtek LAN working would be nice, bu

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user
Here's the FreeDOS image. Volume label is FREEDOS2012. Will mount in Quemu as a RAW image. Can't relocate the site I downloaded it from.https://anonfile.com/J8sau4d4bc/FreeDOS.rar The storage is an IDE Flash Disk, AKA Disk On Module. It has a 44 pin female header connector, same electrical inte

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-04 Thread E. Auer
Some thoughts... The storage is an IDE Flash Disk, AKA Disk On Module. It has a 44 pin female header connector, same electrical interface as a 2.5" IDE hard drive. They're available dirt cheap in sizes from 64 megabytes to 2 gigabytes, not so cheap in 4 and 8 gigabytes... You can also use a c

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-04 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user, > Here's the FreeDOS image. Volume label is FREEDOS2012. Will mount in > Quemu as a RAW image. Can't relocate the site I downloaded it from. > https://anonfile.com/J8sau4d4bc/FreeDOS.rar AUTOEXEC.BAT says: "Image pour le Wyse S30 par Quentin Bouteiller (http://

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user
The CNC control software has to have EMS. Without it, it can't use any more than low memory. It's *old* software, capable of running on a 1981 vintage 5150 IBM PC. So I would assume it knows nothing of newer EMS types with their fancy features. If only Light Machines, then Intelitek, had bothere

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user
I just tried installing FreeDOS 1.2 Lite from a 512 meg USB drive onto a WYSE S30. Result? Failure. It boots and launches the setup. First is says there's no fixed disk, then is says drive D: is not partitioned. So I have it partition and reboot. Repeats this exactly the same. The BIOS *does* pre

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 6:36 PM, Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user wrote: > > The workaround at the bottom of this page will have to be implemented in > FreeDOS in order to install it from USB. Writing to MSRs? Do you really think that's what Quentin did? I somehow doubt it. He seems to have us

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user
It's apparently blocking the FreeDOS USB booted setup from making any writes to IDE, after initially blocking it from detecting there's a drive there at all. What would be nice is if I could get one of these thin clients in the hands of someone who can check it out in depth to figure out what i

[Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

2018-01-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user
I found an "MS-DOS 7.1" boot floppy image and *this one* had no problems booting the S30 with a USB floppy drive, wiping the DOM and creating a fresh partition with FDISK, then rebooting and using format c: /s NOW it's booted to a DOS prompt from the DOM. So I'll try FreeDOS again.. Nope. Sam