Hi Jon,
Very intriguing.
What makes you so certain it's a HPA as opposed to just reducing the
disk capacity? My understanding was that HPA areas were used for
internal drive housekeeping, or perhaps for manufacturer diagnostics,
but since by definition the host can't see it (otherwise it wouldn'
On 3/13/21 5:42 AM, Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user wrote:
As I said before, I suspect what's happening is that the adapter
is detecting something that the BIOS is doing while trying to figure
out the capacity of the disk, and "helpfully" setting up an HPA on
the drive (and doing so so aggressivel
On 3/12/21 2:59 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi Jon,
actually I do not expect "drivers" like OnTrack, Ez Drive etc.
to mess with host protected areas.
It's not OnTrack that I think is messing with the HPA, it's the
SATA <-> IDE adapter. Because when I boot from the OnTrack
installation floppy, I fin
> As I said before, I suspect what's happening is that the adapter
> is detecting something that the BIOS is doing while trying to figure
> out the capacity of the disk, and "helpfully" setting up an HPA on
> the drive (and doing so so aggressively that all but a thousandth of
> the capacity of the
Mar 12, 2021 7:30:03 PM Liam Proven :
>Caveat: you might find that it only has enough tag RAM in its L2 cache to
>cache 64MB of RAM.
>This was quite common in early Pentium boxes. Finding tag RAM these days is...
>unlikely, I suspect.
I'm not holding my breath about finding RAM of any kind for
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 20:56, Jon Brase wrote:
>
> As far as I can tell, OnTrack partitions the disk as part of installing its
> translation scheme.
Yup, I think so. Haven't used it this century, TBH.
> So I have an existing disk, and took an image of each partition on it with
> partimage(1).
Hi Jon,
actually I do not expect "drivers" like OnTrack, Ez Drive etc.
to mess with host protected areas. They just redirect attempts
to access the disk by BIOS to their own code, which modifies
the BIOS call parameters. Which is why OS which access disks
without using the BIOS have to be config
Drat, sent my reply to Dennis only (again... :-/); resending to the
whole list.
On 3/10/21 5:31 PM, dmccunney wrote:
I can't agree. We are not in the single-user, single tasking DOS days
when one thing was going on at a time. At any moment, there are a
number of things going on in a current co
On 3/11/21 4:37 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Also, IIUC, you are trying to access _existing_ partitions? No, I do
not think a disk manager will help you there. Disk managers bypass the
BIOS restrictions by remapping or translating disks' real values, but
they do not just fix the problem. Once you have
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:48 PM Felix Miata wrote:
> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-11 17:43 (UTC-0500):
>
> > The RAM here is all DDR4, same speed, and the only difference is one
> > stick is 8GB. (I may add another 8GB sick at some point, but it won't
> > be soon.)
>
> > When I said I *saw* no p
dmccunney composed on 2021-03-11 17:43 (UTC-0500):
> The RAM here is all DDR4, same speed, and the only difference is one
> stick is 8GB. (I may add another 8GB sick at some point, but it won't
> be soon.)
> When I said I *saw* no performance difference I meant exactly that.
> I have a simple a
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 5:05 PM Felix Miata wrote:
> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-11 09:51 (UTC-0500):
>
> >> IME when RAM is not used in matched pairs in correct slots in a dual
> >> channel
> >> board, RAM speed (memtest86) is cut by nearly half. Did you test RAM speed
> >> before
> >> and af
dmccunney composed on 2021-03-11 09:51 (UTC-0500):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> Odds are that 32GB capable board features dual channel RAM.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_memory_architecture
> Possible.
>> IME when RAM is not used in matched pairs in correct slots in a dual channel
>
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:31 PM Felix Miata wrote:
> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-10 16:56 (UTC-0500):
>
> >> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-09 17:35 (UTC-0500):
>
> >>> ...It has 20GB RAM
>
> >> What is that, a pair of 2GB and a pair of 8GB?
>
> > Nope. It has four DRAM slots, and came with 16GB
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 17:51, dmccunney wrote:
>
> I had a Unix machine at home before I got the XT clone. I was Tech
> Support Manager for a small Unix systems house that resold AT&T kit
> when AT&T was in the computer business, and an AT&T 3B1 joined the
> family.
[...]
I have heard of the 3B1
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 00:32, dmccunney wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:07 PM Jon Brase wrote:
> > On 3/9/21 4:35 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> > > As a general rule, consumer machines are I/O bound, not compute bound.
> > > The CPU spends most of its time in an idle loop waiting for stuff to
> > >
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 22:37, Jon Brase wrote:
> Unfortunately, it's not working. OnTrack sees the same ultra-small capacity
> for the drive as the BIOS and Linux see on that machine. It picks up the
> other 40 GB 2.5" PATA drive, but the SSD + Adapter can't be extended from
> what the BIOS se
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:07 PM Jon Brase wrote:
> On 3/9/21 4:35 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> > As a general rule, consumer machines are I/O bound, not compute bound.
> > The CPU spends most of its time in an idle loop waiting for stuff to
> > be read from/written to disk.
>
> Actually, as a general ru
dmccunney composed on 2021-03-10 16:56 (UTC-0500):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-09 17:35 (UTC-0500):
>>> ...It has 20GB RAM
>> What is that, a pair of 2GB and a pair of 8GB?
> Nope. It has four DRAM slots, and came with 16GB as four 4GB sticks
> in those slots. I rep
On 3/9/21 4:35 PM, dmccunney wrote:
As a general rule, consumer machines are I/O bound, not compute bound.
The CPU spends most of its time in an idle loop waiting for stuff to
be read from/written to disk.
Actually, as a general rule, on a consumer machine, both the CPU and the
disk spend mo
Hi everybody,
my impression of "evolution is faith, not science" is that
it is a bit like "my leg is not broken until I believe it"
but actually I rarely read signatures at all, so I have not
even NOTICED Felix' statement until Tom complained about it.
Sure, free speech could let you say almost
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 3:00 PM Felix Miata wrote:
> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-09 17:35 (UTC-0500):
>
> > The current desktop uses a quad core Intel i5 CPU and 3.5 ghz, with an
> > automatic turbo mode to 3.9 ghz. It has 20GB RAM
> What is that, a pair of 2GB and a pair of 8GB?
Nope. It has
On 3/10/21 10:50 AM, dmccunney wrote:
The fascinating bit for me is that the distinction between RAM and
disk is steadily blurring. Things like nVME make it possible to have
what works like RAM but is non-volatile storage whose content will
survive a reboot.
We are just scratching the surfac
I'll step in for a brief moment to answer this in my own way prior to Felix
doing so. Sorry, Felix. :)
As to why you must be "annoyed" by anyone else's choice of email signature, I
would point out the Christo-American concept of free speech. Felix has complete
freedom to say whatever he wants w
Accidentally responded to Liam instead of the whole list, resending.
On 3/9/21 3:40 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 22:28, Jon Brase wrote:
On 3/3/21 7:30 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Yes. Use a disk manager. It will install a tiny overlay before the OS
boots and that will allow you t
I'm not annoyed.
Al
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 4:17 PM tom ehlert wrote:
>
> "Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion,
> is based on faith, not on science."
>
> either give us a pointer why you think you must annoy us with that,
> or please stop with that (mostly religious) no
"Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion,
is based on faith, not on science."
either give us a pointer why you think you must annoy us with that,
or please stop with that (mostly religious) nonsense.
Tom
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dmccunney composed on 2021-03-09 17:35 (UTC-0500):
> The current desktop uses a quad core Intel i5 CPU and 3.5 ghz, with an
> automatic turbo mode to 3.9 ghz. It has 20GB RAM
What is that, a pair of 2GB and a pair of 8GB?
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Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion,
is based
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:10 AM Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 23:37, dmccunney wrote:
> >
> > On my old XT clone, I had a replacement 10mhz motherboard with a NEC
> > v20 CPU. The V20 was compatible with the Intel 8088, but had better
> > microcode, for a cheap 5% speedup. It had
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 23:37, dmccunney wrote:
>
> On my old XT clone, I had a replacement 10mhz motherboard with a NEC
> v20 CPU. The V20 was compatible with the Intel 8088, but had better
> microcode, for a cheap 5% speedup. It had 640K RAM and two Seagate
> ST-225 MFM HDs. I got it an AST- 6P
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 4:41 PM Liam Proven wrote:
> Installing a CPU upgrade in an old PC was rarely worth the hassle, but
> if you replaced a small hard disk (especially if compressed with
> DoubleSpace or something) with a big more modern one, and maxed out
> the RAM, the performance improvemen
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 22:28, Jon Brase wrote:
>
>
> On 3/3/21 7:30 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> > Yes. Use a disk manager. It will install a tiny overlay before the OS
> > boots and that will allow you to use arbitrarily-large disks without
> > problems. (Probably not with Linux, but with DOS, Win9x,
On 3/3/21 7:30 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Yes. Use a disk manager. It will install a tiny overlay before the OS
boots and that will allow you to use arbitrarily-large disks without
problems. (Probably not with Linux, but with DOS, Win9x, OS/2 and
maybe even NT).
Actually, it looks like, through k
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 13:11, Jon Brase wrote:
[...]
> when I input a manual drive size, I indeed get the 504 MiB limit (it resets
[...]
> Any ideas?
Yes. Use a disk manager. It will install a tiny overlay before the OS
boots and that will allow you to use arbitrarily-large disks without
problems
Hi Jon,
sounds as if your BIOS has various issues with
large drives indeed :-o Have you tried the usual
workaround software which installs a "driver" in
the actual MBR and shows the geometry-sanitized
rest of the drive as if it were the drive? There
even are Linux kernel options to correct for t
Two months later...
On 12/22/20 7:11 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
(I've rearranged Eric's original posting somewhat because responding
to this paragraph makes for a good introduction to where I am now
it was originally towards the end of his e-mail)
You could get yourself a converter to connect SATA d
Dear DOS users,
via the BTTR DOS forum and Jack I received the following warning:
Some mainboards have a BIOS with faulty UDMA in V86 mode support!
This CPU mode is used to run "DOS compatible" tasks in Windows or
certain virtual environments such as Dosemu for Linux, but it is
(importantly) al
On 12/14/2014 4:26 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering whether one of the reasons why old computers
> fail is that the BIOS gets corrupted over time because it is
> stored in rewritable media.
>
BIOS is for quite a wile in a FlashROM type of memory, which is only
Marcos Favero Florence de Barros composed on 2014-12-14 10:26 (UTC-0200):
> I was wondering whether one of the reasons why old computers
> fail is that the BIOS gets corrupted over time because it is
> stored in rewritable media.
> Many of the old computers that I'v tried to reuse seem to have
>
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
wrote:
> I was wondering whether one of the reasons why old computers
> fail is that the BIOS gets corrupted over time because it is
> stored in rewritable media.
It is, but what actually rewrites that media? In general, it's
non
In my (limited) experience, old computers tend to be unuseable because
of a leaking onboard battery that corrodes the copper lines on the PCB
around it (often that's where the keyboard controller is, which
translates as 'non working keyboard').
regards,
Mateusz
On 12/14/2014 01:26 PM, Marcos
Hi,
I was wondering whether one of the reasons why old computers
fail is that the BIOS gets corrupted over time because it is
stored in rewritable media.
Many of the old computers that I'v tried to reuse seem to have
problems in keyboard, floppy and CD operation, which, I believe,
are directly re
Hi!
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/3612.html
This tutorial is from 2006... It describes how to use some Windows
tool for making a stick bootable with DOS after providing FreeDOS
files to use for that... Still a valid method to do, but does not
mean that a specific kernel version h
This tutorial seems to be showing how to do exactly what I am talking
about: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/3612.html
At the very bottom, the author states:
"his gave me the disk geometry and highlighted that there was a 0.2GB FAT
device on /dev/sda1 - my pen drive. Then mount /dev/sda
On 8/25/13, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi Rugxulo, Zaphod ;-)
>
> Personally, I would not want to access USB while flashing: In
> that sense, using a virtual boot floppy in RAM feels safer, so
> my preference would also be GRUB. Note that you can make that
> virtual floppy 2.88 MB instead of 1.44 MB, ho
Thanks for the input
My reason for using grub (or the boot-loader method) is because I find the
concept of having an entire bootable usb of 1Gb used only for booting BIOS
utilities and used <1% in capacity rather silly.
By using grub, one can fully load the USB as a "rescue disk" with all sorts
of
Sorry, forgot the URL:
http://rufus.akeo.ie/
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Beeblebrox wrote:
>>
>> I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash.
>
> You can instead use an entire bootable USB disk of FreeDOS via RUFUS
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Beeblebrox wrote:
>
> I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash. The USB drive has grub2
> installed, I use it as a rescue drive & I can add menu items however I like.
>
> When I boot into FreeDOS, only the contents of the mem-loaded image file
> (FDOEM.14
Hello!
You can try to use flashrom (http://flashrom.org) utility for that.
See download link http://ra.openbios.org/~idwer/flashrom/dos - version
for DOS
Best regards,
Anton Kochkov.
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Beeblebrox wrote:
> I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash. The USB drive
I want to update system BIOS using USB Flash. The USB drive has grub2
installed, I use it as a rescue drive & I can add menu items however I
like. I am able to boot into FreeDOS from grub2 this way:
linux16 (hd0,1)/boot/memdisk raw
linux16 (hd0,1)/boot/FDOEM.144
When I boot into FreeDOS, onl
On 2013-02-09 17:53 (GMT-0800) Ralf A. Quint composed:
> There was such a limitation in the original/ealy
> INT13h BIOS calls, which allowed for maximal 1024
> cylinders (x 16 heads x 63 sectors x 512
> bytes=528482304 bytes = 504MBytes).
In reading about the binary sizes such as this, you'll fin
nager back in the eighties.
>>> bs
>>>
>>> --
>>> *From:* Marco Achury
>>> *To:* sakura kinomoto ; Discussion and general
>>> questions about FreeDOS.
>>>
>>> >
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, Febr
Hi,
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> I do not know baslinux, but you may want to try some
> Linux GPARTED boot disk... That lets you graphically
> modify partitioning, in some cases even modify in a
> way which does not cause content loss.
BASIC Linux is old and meant for old
>> --
>> *From:* Marco Achury
>> *To:* sakura kinomoto ; Discussion and general
>> questions about FreeDOS.
>> *Sent:* Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:59 AM
>> *Subject:* Re: [Freedos-user] Bios limitation at 8 gb, and new hdd
>>
>
At 05:33 PM 2/9/2013, john s wolter wrote:
BS,
Don't forget the FAT-16 limit of 514 or was that
504 MBytes. Â Somehow this issue keeps being
asked. Â Maybe we are not doing enough to explain it clearly.
There is no FAT-16 limit of 504MBytes.
There was such a limitation in the original/ealy
eighties.
> bs
>
> --
> *From:* Marco Achury
> *To:* sakura kinomoto ; Discussion and general
> questions about FreeDOS.
> *Sent:* Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:59 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Freedos-user] Bios limitation at 8 gb, and new hdd
>
&g
Hey neat. I used Ontrack Disk Manager back in the eighties.
bs
From: Marco Achury
To: sakura kinomoto ; Discussion and general questions
about FreeDOS.
Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Bios limitation at 8 gb, and new
On 2013-02-09 16:04 (GMT+0100) Eric Auer composed:
> 0f is extended with LBA (like 05 but with LBA)
I'm pretty sure no OS on the planet requires extended type 0x0F to use LBA,
except
Win95b
Win98
WinME
If you use none of above WinDOS, there's no use in using the non-sta
Hi! Returning to the list... So you have tried:
> 1: Different disk managers (SpfDisk, Partition Magic, Power Quest,
> Fdisk, Fdisk in BasLinux(it can create partitions on all hdd,
> but can not mount it)
SPFDISK has this menu option "setup support FAT32"
which you can enable. Also, when you edi
Thank you, Marco Achury!
how can I install ontrack disk manager, without floppy? (my floppy device is
broken)
(I download it by link http://old-dos.ru/dl.php?id=4602 )
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On DOS this is a normal limitation.
There a program "Ontrack Disk Manager" that help you to format big
partitions.
You can left 1 or 2 partitions for DOS (8 Gb each) and the remaining
disk you
can use it with another operating system.
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Op 9-2-2013 12:18, sakura kinomoto schreef:
> Hi all!
> I have a PC 1996 year, and bought a hd
> d, Samsung sp0802n, (maybe 2005 year), with 80 gigabites
>
> But my bios can see only (first) 8 gigabites
> I am newbie, so, please, tell me, what software can help?
> Thanks for any hint!
You might wa
Hi all!
I have a PC 1996 year, and bought a hd
d, Samsung sp0802n, (maybe 2005 year), with 80 gigabites
But my bios can see only (first) 8 gigabites
I am newbie, so, please, tell me, what software can help?
Thanks for any hint!
I love FreeDOS! :)
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Gustavo J Mata wrote:
> I need to update the BIOS of a computer with Ubuntu Linux installed. I own a
> second computer, an iMac running OS X 10.6.
>
> To the iMac I have downloaded both the BIOS updater and the fdfullcd.iso
> image. What I want to do is create
I need to update the BIOS of a computer with Ubuntu Linux installed. I own a
second computer, an iMac running OS X 10.6.
To the iMac I have downloaded both the BIOS updater and the fdfullcd.iso
image. What I want to do is create a bootable freedos CD* with the BIOS
updater in it.*
How do I do
Hi!
> Amongst the different options you have your favourites (JEMM over
> FD-EMM, MKEYB over FD-KEYB, etc) and such. What is dangerous is...
Depends. I prefer to say that you can try using X instead of Y
and it may work better. It may also work worse! It is more about
"trying something else" and
Hello,
2008/9/28 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi Aitor, Hans,
>
>> > a 286 or newer processor). If EDIT or KEYB fail on your 80186, try
>> > EDIT 0.7d and MKEYB, which should work even on 8086. Or use no
>> > keyboard driver at all (if you use US keyboard layout). Let us know
>> > if you fin
Hi Aitor, Hans,
> > a 286 or newer processor). If EDIT or KEYB fail on your 80186, try
> > EDIT 0.7d and MKEYB, which should work even on 8086. Or use no
> > keyboard driver at all (if you use US keyboard layout). Let us know
> > if you find other programs which do not work on 80186 processors.
Hello,
2008/9/25 Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> a 286 or newer processor). If EDIT or KEYB fail on your 80186, try
> EDIT 0.7d and MKEYB, which should work even on 8086. Or use no
> keyboard driver at all (if you use US keyboard layout). Let us know
> if you find other programs which do not work on 8
Hi Eric,
You replied some time ago to a user that asked which BIOS services are
required to support FreeDOS, could you (or anybody else) please list those
services again. For some reason the link below is no longer valid.
Thanks
Hans
www.ht-lab.com
Hi, the short answer is: YES.
You can run Fr
thanks for answers
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Hi!
> Hi. I want to flash new bios to my motherboard.
> Is it safe to use freedos instead of msdos for
> bios flashing purposes? Are there any problems with this?
Basic answer: The risk is similar in both cases.
Avoid emm386 / jemm386 / jemmex / USB drivers, try
to boot from something simple (f
Hi Tomasz,
I didn't have a problem.
Bye
Flo
El mié, 24-09-2008 a las 13:18 +0200, tomasz orzechowski escribió:
> Hi. I want to flash new bios to my motherboard. Is it safe to use
> freedos instead of msdos for bios flashing purposes? Are there any
> problems with this?
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Hi Michael,
My main point was that the FDISK bug may have been _triggered_ by EMM386
with VDS, and that if he hadn't been running EMM386 his FDISK tests
would not have caused a bad partition table. You were saying this:
Oh good grief. EMM386 doesn't have the code or capability to mess
with
At 01:08 AM 7/31/2005 +0100, Gerry Hickman wrote:
Oh good grief. EMM386 doesn't have the code or capability to mess with
disk partitions. Period.
But if drive geometry is being misreported or misunderstood under EMM386
with VDS (which appears to be the case), then my guess is that it would
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:43:04 +0100, you wrote:
Hi Gerry,
>Old OSs, including DOS, Win3.xx and NT, were not aware of this extension
>and therefore always need an overlay program to use large hard drives .
That means Win98 FDISK ignore the "INT13 extension".
Thanks for the information.
Rgds,
Hi Michael,
Can you clarify; when your partition table became damaged, were you
running EMM386 at the time, and have you tried it without?
Oh good grief. EMM386 doesn't have the code or capability to mess with
disk partitions. Period.
But if drive geometry is being misreported or misunder
At 08:23 PM 7/30/2005 +0100, Gerry Hickman wrote:
Ah, yes, ... :-) Try emm386 without the VDS argument and under no
circumstances run FreeDOS FDISK unless you want to risk an erased
partition table.
Can you clarify; when your partition table became damaged, were you
running EMM386 at the t
Ah, yes, ... :-) Try emm386 without the VDS argument
and under no circumstances run FreeDOS FDISK unless
you want to risk an erased partition table.
OK I ran the tests again, after taking out VDS everything is working
normally, FDISK /INFO reports the correct partition sizes and luckily my
Hi Gerry:
Yes, I was running emm386. However, FDISK erased my
(and at least one other) partition table without any
prompt or request at all when only requested to
examine the table. It's too risky to run the program at
all until that bug is addressed (IMHO). I believe there
is a development ver
Hi Mark
Ah, yes, ... :-) Try emm386 without the VDS argument
and under no circumstances run FreeDOS FDISK unless
you want to risk an erased partition table.
Can you clarify; when your partition table became damaged, were you
running EMM386 at the time, and have you tried it without? Maybe
Hi Gerry:
Ah, yes, ... :-) Try emm386 without the VDS argument
and under no circumstances run FreeDOS FDISK unless
you want to risk an erased partition table.
Thanks for reporting this. Let us know what happens without
the VDS argument to EMM386!
Mark
> Hi,
>
> I tried some rough tests t
Gerry Hickman wrote:
In an eariler post I said I'd seen drive sizes reported as 8Gb with SCSI
when the drives are actually much bigger. I thought it was related to
not using a SCSI driver and BIOS (INT13) reporting wrong size, and Eric
said it wasn't. I think Eric is right, but my BIOS has bee
Hi,
I tried some rough tests today with BIOS, SCSI and TUNS. Here's are some
results.
In an eariler post I said I'd seen drive sizes reported as 8Gb with SCSI
when the drives are actually much bigger. I thought it was related to
not using a SCSI driver and BIOS (INT13) reporting wrong size,
Mihai Rusu wrote:
Hi
I want to automate this process, ie to prepare some scripts to quickly
setup a floppy or a CD, bootable (with FreeDOS) and on which I also copy
the BIOS upgrade files which I need at that point.
Has anyone did this ? Any problems of using FreeDOS with BIOS flashing
software
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:32:06 +0300 (EEST), you wrote:
Hi,
Make sure you got exactly same kind of hardware, otherwise you'll
destroy the BIOS and fail to recover.
>Has anyone did this ? Any problems of using FreeDOS with BIOS flashing
>software ? Anyone has some hints ? (like how to get only the
Hi
I recently had to upgrade quite some number of systems with latest BIOS
versions (to support latest CPU models, RAM speeds, fix annoying bugs
etc). Some systems have floppy and CDROM, some just one of those. Usually
the vendor requires a single method, floppy or CDROM (most require
floppy).
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