Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! >>> www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/lbacache/2008/ >> Lbacache.com 6 Apr 2008; no apparent change if still without TUNS. > Same lbcache, no TUNS, when I try to copy certain files I get: > LBACACHE flush: write error.0180/CHS#3c3c Odd. That message means: - you tried to

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-12 Thread Ray Davison
Any more thoughts on this? Ray Ray Davison wrote: > Eric Auer wrote: >> Hi! >> >>> I just noticed a MEM /c I ran on that HDD Feb 2008. Why do the >>> available memory start out differently. There is small difference >>> in total RAM size, but by then doesn't DOS not care? >>>SYSTEM 17,

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-12 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: > Eric Auer wrote: > >> Try if updating LBACACHE helps: >> >> www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/lbacache/2008/ >> > Lbacache.com 6 Apr 2008; no apparent change if still without TUNS. Same lbcache, no TUNS, when I try to copy certain files I get: LBACACHE flu

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-11 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > >> I just noticed a MEM /c I ran on that HDD Feb 2008. Why do the >> available memory start out differently. There is small difference >> in total RAM size, but by then doesn't DOS not care? > >>SYSTEM 17,344 (17K) 10,992 (11K) 6,352(6K) >>

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > I just noticed a MEM /c I ran on that HDD Feb 2008. Why do the > available memory start out differently. There is small difference > in total RAM size, but by then doesn't DOS not care? >SYSTEM 17,344 (17K) 10,992 (11K) 6,352(6K) >HIMEM2,704(3K)

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-11 Thread bwspos
Hi Eric Sorry for the delay but I had to wait until last nite to upload lbacache-2008apr07.zip and a modded fdconfig.sys to the system in question (it's 200km away) and then wait for someone to unzip & test. Just as you thought it now boots OK. If I get a chance this weekend I will set up a sys

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-10 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: > Try if updating LBACACHE helps: > > www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/lbacache/2008/ > Lbacache.com 6 Apr 2008; no apparent change if still without TUNS. With TUNS Jemm386: exception 06 ... CS:EIP=33FA:05C6 esc Continues to boot, Lbacache now has 40

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-10 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: > SYSTEM 10992 - 6352 > HIMEM 2704 - 0 > COMMAND 3024 - 624 I just noticed a MEM /c I ran on that HDD Feb 2008. Why do the available memory start out differently. There is small difference in total RAM size, but by then doesn't DOS not care? *** Current

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-10 Thread Ray Davison
bwspos wrote: > Had this the other day - removing TUNS from LBACACHE should fix it > and,no, I don't know why. I removed "TUNS". It now boots OK. And mem /c says the following is in conventional - upper, everything else has zero conventional. I am left with 608,554 (594K). SYSTEM 10992 - 6

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Please do try whether updating LBACACHE makes things work again BOTH with tuns and without tuns, thanks! > I googled the TUNS option and it seemed it was only > for SCSI SATA & RAID - is this this case? > I guess the FreeDOS install configured the TUNS option > because of the SATA channel?

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-10 Thread bwspos
>> Had this the other day - removing TUNS from LBACACHE >> should fix it and,no, I dont know why >> > > Then the problem might be related to the limited size of > stack for the TUNS option. Try if updating LBACACHE helps: > > www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/lbacache/2008/

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! >> It has worked well since. I now moved the HDD to new hardware. If I >> select boot 1 or 2, fdconfig.sys gets about to the end and cannot find >> command.com. However, the floppy with the same fdconfig.sys boots OK. >> Screen echo and files are below. ... >> LBAcache. >> Detecting

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-10 Thread bwspos
Ray Davison wrote: > I did a HDD installation excepting the suggestions of the install > routine. That seems to work. Then I made a boot floppy from the HDD > installation. I used the same directory structure, changed the drive > letters, and deleted some stuff from autoexec.bat. Based on dir