Mail Archives: opendos/2000/09/18/18:18:53
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:01:27 -0600 Charles Dye <raster AT highfiber DOT com>
writes:
> At 06:29 PM 9/15/00 -0600, "Pat" wrote:
>
> >I would like to know hat problem people are having with DRDOS 7.03
> FDiSk,
> >7.02 for that matter? I have been using it for several eyars now
> and have
> >had no problems, in fact just the opposite.
>
>snip<
> Second, it writes a strange OEM ID string. Something like
> "DRDOS 7" if memory serves. This ID string is probably
> purely cosmetic for DR-DOS, but MS-DOS uses it to decide
> whether or not to "trust" the values in the BIOS parameter
> block which specify (for example) the cluster size... and,
> indirectly, the start of the root directory....
>
This ID string was covered by Paul Mattias in a post several months ago.
Several different entries were used by DRDOS, NDOS7, OPENDOS7.x,
IBM PCDOS.
It was not purely cosmetic and was used basically for the same reasons
MSDOS (all versions) used it. If you check back in the archives you
should be able to find it and the changes he made to correct it in the
OPENDOS/DR-DOS/DRDOS versions.
Or you could contact him at:
eMail: <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
When MSDOS ran into this ID on any DRdos versions it would trash your
system to some extent and would not let your windows programs run
properly,
if at all. That was part of the lawsuit, if memory serves me right.
> raster AT highfiber DOT com
>
>
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