Re: [Freedos-devel] Compact Flash under DOS

2004-11-16 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Arkady, > BTW, AFAIK, flash allows limited amount of rewritings. 100.000+ no problem for data, but sure a problem for FAT/directory etc. fortunately, current (1999+) flash devices distribute this traffic over the chip, and have spare sectors, so that's not a problem in real live. tom

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compact Flash under DOS

2004-11-16 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 15-Ноя-2004 19:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnson Lam) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Unfortunately - no. BIOS doesn't support hot swapping. To be precise, >>BIOS supports removable device (this is floppy drive), but for this your >>card reader should imitate removable device, which later will

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compact Flash under DOS

2004-11-15 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:13:45 +0300 (MSK), you wrote: Hi Arkady, > Unfortunately - no. BIOS doesn't support hot swapping. To be precise, >BIOS supports removable device (this is floppy drive), but for this your >card reader should imitate removable device, which later will be present in >DOS a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compact Flash under DOS

2004-11-13 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 12-Ноя-2004 14:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Mariottini) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RM> I'm using a Compact Flash reader with IDE interface under MS-DOS. RM> My problem is that the compact flash card *must* be inserted into the RM> reader *before* the boot otherwise the POST of the BIOS do

[Freedos-devel] Compact Flash under DOS

2004-11-12 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, here is a question from an user. He's using MS-DOS 6.22, and I don't know if FreeDOS can solve his problem. The fundamental question is: there is a way to make the BISO/kernel re-read disk information from an IDE disk? Ciao Hello to everybody. I'm using