Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:34:51 +0100 From: Matthias Paul Subject: Re: Again about NTFS problem. To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Message-id: <13E36A04FB8@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------