Message-ID: <38690149.1C7E2459@bigfoot.com> From: JP Morris Organization: Aircraft Liberation Front X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.3.24 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Exploding GO32 programs References: <3868017A DOT 5EC73DA AT bigfoot DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 56 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 18:28:25 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.56.119.112 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT plus DOT net DOT uk X-Trace: wards 946405967 212.56.119.112 (Tue, 28 Dec 1999 18:32:47 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 18:32:47 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, JP Morris wrote: > > > I few months ago I got a 13gb IDE disk. > > To make it work in DOS, it uses a driver called ontrackd.sys which > > somehow > > allows DOS to use the Int13 extensions and access type F extented > > partitions. > > What is type F extended partition? Normally they are type 0x05 in the partition table. These are type 0x0F in the partition table.... ===== Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1583 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 260 2088418+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda2 * 262 262 8032+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 503 1583 8683132+ f Win95 Extended (LBA) /dev/hda4 263 502 1927800 a5 BSD/386 /dev/hda5 503 763 2096451 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda6 764 1024 2096451 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda7 1025 1285 2096451 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda8 1286 1546 2096451 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda9 1547 1583 297171 82 Linux swap ===== hda3 is the extended partition, it is marked as 'Win95 Extended (LBA)'. The ontrackd driver allows me to use all the partitions inside it using DRDOS or MSDOS 6.x. But DJGPP 1.x programs only run if it is not installed. > > I want to run these programs. Has anyone heard of this before? > > I don't recall hearing anything like that. Does the device driver come > with a list of known conflicts with old software? Remarkably I forgot to check. > > Do DJGPP v2.x programs run? Yes. It only affects 1.x-compiled programs. -- JP Morris - aka DOUG the Eagle (Dragon) -=UDIC=- DOUG-15 AT bigfoot DOT com Fun things to do with the Ultima games (http://ithe.cjb.net) Developing a U6/U7 clone (http://fly.to/ire) d+++ e+ N+ T++ Om U123456!7'!8!KA u++ uC+++ uF+++ uG---- uLB---- uA--- nC+ nR---- nH+++ nP++ nI nPT nS nT wM- wC- y a(YEAR - 1976)