Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 options, was: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 06:48 PM 8/24/2004 -0300, Alain wrote: So now I have something to wish for. It looks that the most compatible _and_ safe behaviour is to map RAM to X=TEST, which was exactly your first suggestion :) Safest, but very incompatible with MS expected RAM behavior. Not the reverse either, just so

[Freedos-devel] FORMAT problem

2004-08-26 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, I found an old program which can display IDE's information. But no information who code it. I think it can be distributed. http://johnson.tmfc.net/file/ide.exe I hope the information can help to trouble shoot the format problem. Here's result of my office's SEAGATE hard disk: = DRIVE 1

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:05 PM 8/26/2004 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:09:50 -0500, you wrote: Hi Michael, >>DEVICE=EMM386.EXE RAM EMM=1024 > >No, you have to add SB for the SoundBlaster workaround to be >active. Anything up to EMM=2030 or in that neighborhood should work too, >if you want more EM

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 options, was: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:45 PM 8/25/2004 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 24-á×Ç-2004 15:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MD> X=TEST. Still can't catch everything out there and may be "too safe" in MD> other situations, but best we can do for a conservative automatic MD> mode. Se