Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Сен-2005 09:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brolin Empey) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> No, error message says parsing error, not read error. For me, there >> looks like broken memory contents. BE> The line in question is indeed syntactically correct. Yes, I see. BE> Th

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Brolin Empey
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 22-Сен-2005 02:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: BB> it sounds like VDS again to me. That has the effect that no more can be BB> read from harddisk, BB> which would explain the error about the cdromdrive, which seems li

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Сен-2005 02:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: BB> it sounds like VDS again to me. That has the effect that no more can be BB> read from harddisk, BB> which would explain the error about the cdromdrive, which seems like BB> perfectly fine synta

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Сен-2005 16:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brolin Empey) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: BE> CONFIG.SYS* error in line 26** 12?DEVICEhigh=C:\FDOS\bin\vide-cdd.sys /D:vide BE> ^ BE> * this is wrong: FDCONFIG.SYS is being parsed, *not* CONFIG.SYS! BE> ** this too is

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:05 PM 9/21/2005 -0500, I wrote: At 05:48 PM 9/21/2005 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: I think that it'd be really nice to have a utility to detect the instances where VDS would fail because then distros like mine can add the NOVDS option in the installed config.sys and a user could save much

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Brolin Empey
Michael Devore wrote: At 04:42 PM 9/21/2005 -0700, Brolin Empey wrote: FastTracker 2.08 runs fine for me under latest HIMEM and EMM386. PKUNZIP failing unless the NOEMS option is specified, now that's a problem I'm working on. EMM386 v2.05 breaks my FDCONFIG.SYS! When booting, I get the fol

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:48 PM 9/21/2005 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: > it sounds like VDS again to me. That has the effect that no I think that it'd be really nice to have a utility to detect the instances where VDS would fail because then distros like mine can add the NOVDS option in the installed config.sys an

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-21 Thread Blair Campbell
> it sounds like VDS again to me. That has the effect that no I think that it'd be really nice to have a utility to detect the instances where VDS would fail because then distros like mine can add the NOVDS option in the installed config.sys and a user could save much trouble by not having to boot

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: EMM386 isn't involved in parsing CONFIG.SYS at all, but you can try the emmflesh.zip update if you want to see about the latest. it sounds like VDS again to me. That has the effect that no more can be read from harddisk, which would explain the error about the cdromdri

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:42 PM 9/21/2005 -0700, Brolin Empey wrote: FastTracker 2.08 runs fine for me under latest HIMEM and EMM386. PKUNZIP failing unless the NOEMS option is specified, now that's a problem I'm working on. EMM386 v2.05 breaks my FDCONFIG.SYS! When booting, I get the following output: FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-21 Thread Brolin Empey
Michael Devore wrote: At 05:05 PM 9/19/2005 -0700, Brolin wrote: Firstly, I have not tested this new release. That said, what is the status with regards to having FastTracker II working on FreeDOS? FastTracker 2.08 runs fine for me under latest HIMEM and EMM386. PKUNZIP failing unless the N

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-21 Thread Florian Xaver
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Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:05 PM 9/19/2005 -0700, Brolin wrote: Firstly, I have not tested this new release. That said, what is the status with regards to having FastTracker II working on FreeDOS? FastTracker 2.08 runs fine for me under latest HIMEM and EMM386. PKUNZIP failing unless the NOEMS option is specified

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-20 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Michael, Nope, there are documented instances of SCSI drivers being incompatible with VDS. Sure, but as I understand it, this VDS problem will occurr even when there's NO driver loaded (e.g. pure INT13)? In those cases, they share the same interrupt and potentially the same register val

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:05 PM 9/19/2005 -0700, Brolin wrote: Firstly, I have not tested this new release. That said, what is the status with regards to having FastTracker II working on FreeDOS? My FreeDOS installation consists mainly of what was distributed with the Beta9 SR1 CD, so some of the components may

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Brolin
Michael Devore wrote: Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx205.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms205.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. Firstly, I have not tested this new release. That said, what is the status with regards to ha

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:21 PM 9/19/2005 +0100, you wrote: A better option would be to get to the bottom of why SCSI and VDS do not like each other. SCSI is a drive interface - I don't see how it can be affected by VDS unless there's something bigger going on. It may he SCSI is merely showing up the problem, as

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Gerry Hickman schreef: A better option would be to get to the bottom of why SCSI and VDS do not like each other. SCSI is a drive interface - I don't see how it can be affected by VDS unless there's something bigger going on. It may he SCSI is merely showing up the problem, as opposed to BEING t

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Michael, This version of EMM386 has a number of compatibility changes Cool. While on the topics of VDS, the VDS option is now on by default. Too many environments require this to leave it as optional, plus a default on condition matches Microsoft EMM386. There exist SCSI setups which

[Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx205.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms205.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. This version of EMM386 has a number of compatibility changes to enhance operability with a variety of DOS applicatio