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From: Jacob Brewer <Jacob DOT Brewer AT oasisgamingusa DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: DR Dos on a P4
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:06:36 -0600 
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My assembler isn't too good.  I am having problems getting the line "not
dword [es:bx + di]" to compile in MASM6.11.  I am getting a syntax error :(
Is it the same as "not [es:bx + di]"

-----Original Message-----
From: Michal H. Tyc [mailto:mht AT bttr-software DOT de]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 5:58 PM
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DR Dos on a P4


Oh, my first message to the list was rejected too...

Let's try again:

; CLRVDISK.COM
; Clear VDISK signature in HMA if A20 enabled at boot time,
;   which happens on some systems (as Toshiba Satellite 300CDS)
;   and causes memory manager initialization error
; Add INSTALL=CLRVDISK.COM in [D]CONFIG.SYS before the memory
;   manager; this works under DR-DOS only, as MS-DOS processes
;   INSTALL= directives too late
; Intel syntax (NASM), 80386+

  org 100h

  xor bx, bx
  mov ds, bx              ; ds = 0
  dec bx
  mov es, bx              ; es = 0FFFFh
  mov bx, 200h            ; word to compare: unused INT 80h vector
  mov di, 10h             ; offset of HMA in segment 0FFFFh
  mov ax, [bx]
  cmp ax, [es:bx + di]    ; 20-bit address wrap test
  jne clear               ; words differ, A20 enabled
  not dword [es:bx + di]  ; not sure yet, try modifying HMA
  cmp ax, [bx]
  jne done                ; 0:200h changed, so A20 is disabled
clear:
  cld
  mov cx, di              ; length = 10h words, dest = HMA start
  xor ax, ax
  rep stosw               ; clear VDISK header (if any)
done:
  ret                     ; return via INT 20h

The binary is attached in a private message.

Hope this helps,

Michal