Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:27:33 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DJGPP timer slowdown In-Reply-To: <95pq26$sdp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 dcasale AT my-deja DOT com wrote: > > You could access the disk with the normal BIOS calls, not the EBIOS > > calls. > > Unless there is a way to perform direct disk access to entire drives > larger than 8.4GB using standard BIOS calls -- and as far as I'm aware, > there isn't -- then I'm forced to use these calls. The standard BIOS > calls are limited to either 504MB or 8.4GB, depending on whether I've > got my BIOS set for CHS or LBA translation. Right? So you are pulling your hairs just to let people on plain DOS access FAT32-formatted drives, yes? And all that in order to support long file names without installing a TSR, right? It doesn't seem like a good investment of time. Gosh, just the mapping of logical to physical drives can make you crazy.