Mail Archives: opendos/1999/06/17/07:39:25
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 Pavel V. Ozerski wrote:
> >Anyway, if NTFSDOS aborts with something like "Invalid DOS version"
> >or "Cannot run on DR DOS.", I would try for example:
> >
> > SETVER NTFSDOS.EXE 6.128 /X
>
> No, NTFSDOS seems to be "fully content", it does not find problems,
> it mountes drive without any error message but this drive
> mistakenly shows as empty. [...]
> It is possible that NTFSDOS works directly with FCBs.
Well, it s true that DR-DOS dynamically allocates system FCBS and
handles from the same pool of handles. This is to save memory.
However, the only actual difference is, that within the DRDAT
structure there appears to be only one FCBS available no matter
of the FCBS= directive in CONFIG.SYS. The count of FCBS= will be
added to the count of FILES=, and both share the same internal
pool of handles. However, you can still use more system FCBS,
since system FCBS and file handles are basically the same. It
probably had some good reasons why they chosed to report it this
way, but I can only imagine...
Anyway, I don t think, this is the problem. But if it was, it would
be extremly easy to fix for Mark (or Caldera). Maybe you can convince
him to run some tests on DR-DOS 7 to track down the *actual* missing
requirements (it should be easy for him, because he has his driver s
sources). If for some unlikely reason an easy fix isn t possible from
his side, he should feel free to contact (Caldera or) me to discuss
the issue in details and look for a satisfactory solution.
Matthias
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