Hi guys,
Typical error occurs following format:
Drive_IO(WRITE 9, count 1 ) [FAT12/16] [drive A:]
Critical error during DOS disk access
DOS driver error (hex) : 08
Description: sector not found
Progam terminated.
[Error 136]
C:\
If the floppy was not formatted before and you do
Hello group,
I am playing a bit with a 8086 PC these days, and I noticed an ugly
difference on it between FreeDOS and MSDOS 3.3:
MSDOS 3.3 keeps the content of last read sectors of the diskette in a
cache, while FreeDOS does not. This means that FreeDOS is accessing the
FDD much more often
Hi,
On May 25, 2015 2:27 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote:
Question -- is there any way I could install a diskette cache on
FreeDOS? If not supported by the kernel right away (as seems to be the
case in MSDOS), maybe some additional (preferably free) tool could help?
Unfortunately
Could this be the cause of so many diskette formatting failures in FreeDOS?
I have to resort to either booting in Compaq DOS 3.31 or using 3rd party
formatting tools such as FMT or Nformat.
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote:
Hello group,
I am playing a bit
Hi,
On May 25, 2015 7:09 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote:
Could this be the cause of so many diskette formatting
failures in FreeDOS? I have to resort to either booting in
Compaq DOS 3.31 or using 3rd party formatting tools such
as FMT or Nformat.
Try an older stable kernel (2038 or
With my need for the FCB filename parsing, int 21h function 29h patch I
need to use either the patched 2041 or the unofficial 2042 kernel. I do
have fewer errors with the 2042,
Typical error occurs following format:
Drive_IO(WRITE 9, count 1 ) [FAT12/16] [drive A:]
Critical error during DOS
Mateusz,
I went through my archives and found Central Point PC-Tools version 4. It
has a floppy cache called PC-Cache which should work.
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote:
With my need for the FCB filename parsing, int 21h function 29h patch I
need to use
