Re: [Freedos-user] devload and UMB problem

2008-06-27 Thread iw2evk
with the new release of devload http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/devload-3.21.zip the problems appears solved.. Now more usb drivers can be loaded in UMB's. Roberto iw2evk iw2evk wrote: I've the same problem with usb drivers Devload \h C:\usb\usbaspi.sys

Re: [Freedos-user] devload and UMB problem

2008-06-27 Thread iw2evk
with the new release of devload http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/devload-3.21.zip the problems appears solved.. Now more usb drivers can be loaded in UMB's. Roberto iw2evk Eric Auer wrote: Hi again, well if you can compile devload at all (you need tasm

Re: [Freedos-user] devload and UMB problem

2008-06-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Roberto iw2evk, actually devload-3.21 is not officially released yet, I am still waiting for the okay from David (original author) but I guess he will like this version ;-). So as everybody now knows there will be an update anyway, feel free to test it already: Does it work with and without

Re: [Freedos-user] devload and UMB problem

2008-06-18 Thread iw2evk
I've the same problem with usb drivers Devload \h C:\usb\usbaspi.sys devload \h C:\usb\usbcd.sys All the drivers remain in low memory. as702 SHA-1 wrote: just wondering if you could shed some light on a problem i'm having with FreeDOS (this work is based off of Modboot/NwDsk 3.42

Re: [Freedos-user] devload and UMB problem

2008-06-18 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: ... I said some weeks ago that devload can not load into umb every time (Thread [Freedos-user] loading other config.sys?) but if I remember right you didn't believe me that devicehigh and devload /h are not completely the same or better said that devload can not be a full

Re: [Freedos-user] devload and UMB problem

2008-06-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, you were right, I was not aware that devload fails to figure out an appropriate UMB size and therefore fails more often than devicehigh to load devices to UMB space. Reading the sources made me realize that this feature is missing. Of course it can be added. However, devload will

Re: [Freedos-user] devload and UMB problem

2008-06-18 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: However, devload will still not be perfect: Some drivers only have full performance if you load them before you load any command.com for the first time, which means you must load them before any bat file or prompt which would let you run devload... ;-). Could you reach

Re: [Freedos-user] devload and UMB problem

2008-06-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again, However, devload will still not be perfect: Some drivers only have full performance if you load them before you load any command.com for the first time Could you reach the same state 'not loaded any command.com' by unloading command.com before and then it could become

Re: [Freedos-user] devload and UMB problem

2008-06-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again, well if you can compile devload at all (you need tasm or the free arrowasm asm, www.dunfield.com/downloads.htm ) then you can help yourself with a patch / workaround: mov bx,0fffh; never desire 64k of UMBs Change this line to use 3ffh instead of 0fffh,