To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 00:17:25 -0800
Subject: Re: DRDOS 7.04/7.05 kernel files.  Oh My!
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From: Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Would you believe the xbios.com might "just possibly" be connected with 
the way that DM hides the real size of the hard drive and installs
several 
hidden files that control access to the "real HD" and has nothing to do
with 
the long file names problem.  For instance, the old DM 'V7.09 & older' 
used to say set your hard drive to type 9, reboot from a dos floppy and  
then run DM.  Then when you booted up your computer, you always got the 
Blue DM Boot-up Bar which said something like: Hit enter to 
continue or "to boot from floppy hit the space bar".  

There is also the problem of each hard disk manufacturer licensing a self

modified copy made specifically for their hard disk.  Since all of the DM

action takes place before the computer boots up through Command.Com 
the real culprit just possibly could be in Command.Com, although that is 
out of my knowledge base, being a non-programmer.

BOB "DOMAN" MOSS  
"Eat Chocolate every day. It comes from a bean, therefore it is a
vitamin." 


On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:19:55 -0800 "Alan S." <as173 AT cornell DOT edu> writes:
> Ok, so adding the XBIOS driver did NOT solve the "rename file 
> problem"
> [Operating System error number 17] which afflicts IBMDOS.COM version
> 7.04.  Too bad, I wanted to use DRDOS [through the Loader] as a way 
> to
> replace the 'Boot to REAL DOS' option lost when I upgraded to WinMe.
> 
> Actually I can't believe that Caldera didn't jump into the WinMe 
> 'Boot
> to REAL DOS' "add-on" niche market after Millennium was 
> released--even
> if it didn't generate much revenue, it would have generated 
> publicity
> for Caldera--and tweaked MS's nose!  But Caldera would have had to 
> fix
> up all FAT32 processing--including boot_from_FAT32--using only the 
> three
> kernel files.  Plus we don't know what the Caldera/MS settlement 
> said
> about DRDOS sales & marketing...  So much for free competition!
> 
> Alan S.
> 1-23-2001
> 
>        
> 
> On 1-22-2001, "Alan S." wrote:
> > 
> > Like others in this NG, I tried replacing the DRDOS 7.03 kernel 
> files
> > with the 7.04/7.05 kernel files -- and when I tried to change 
> [e.g.]
> > AUTOEXEC.BAT, I got the same "Operating System error number 17 
> File -
> > c:\autoexec.bat" message I have seen mentioned elsewhere on the 
> net.
> > 
> > However, I just noticed the Ontrack Fix-It Utilities 3.0 Rescue 
> Disk 
> > is based on the DRDOS 7.04/7.05 kernel [no surprise there,] and I 
> see 
> > the AUTOEXEC.BAT runs a program XBIOS -- for which the runtime 
> banner
> > description is "Hard Disk INT 13H Device Driver".  Does anyone 
> know 
> > if the inclusion of this driver resolves any of the DRDOS 7.0x 
> kernel
> > problems? [NOT "can't boot from FAT32" obviously AND 
> unfortunately!]

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