GoodByteXL Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 (edited) I can understand the reluctance of DOS 2.5 afficianados to use the device in new ways, since large partitions and nested folders are a complete irrelevance in that case. I'm not a gamer, and indeed made my first game boot disk for someone else only last week - but I suppose 99% of games don't use DOS and might best be stored in some kind of rack. Surely an unformatted "Big DOS" partition could be populated by a compound image of games, accessed by a boot menu which requires absolutely no changes to the HDD interface's firmware. This is indeed something like a mouse click in any GUI - press <I> and DOS will format, etc. ... Man, since the mid eighties I am trying to drill thru the thick wood many 'DOS 2.5 afficianados' are wearing in front of the forehead . And for gamers ICD already delivered at that time in 1984 (iirc) a very powerful "game DOS" called LOGOMENU.SYS running on SD 1.1 formatted disks (720KB max.) enabling sio highspeed automatically. It was a "killer" back then and still is a good one. Edited June 17, 2011 by GoodByteXL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Ok, I'm beyond frustrated. Sloopy and I walked through an identical setup and he was able to get his MYDOS partition setup and working. I cant even get mine setup (which is stupid as it worked yesterday) When I drop out of FDISK2 and mydos comes back I hit RESET and it is supposed to activate the IDE (I check in start-reset and it's IDE on) however I get no access to any disks, I have the partition set as ACT BR, the only disk I can see is the APE disk.... I've flashed the latest firmware and my SDX and SD3.2 partitions are fine... I'm at the point now where I am just ready to go back to IDEa and say screw it, there is something wrong with my IDE+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simius Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Tried KMKDIAG.COM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 (edited) Everything checks out fine with KMKDIA, also tried with two CF cards and a real laptop drive. Edited June 17, 2011 by orpheuswaking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Okay another stupid question... I had my SDX partition set as 65534 & 256bps and when I format it it comes out 32746... Does SDX have to be set as 512 to give 65534? if so is SDX the only dos I need to do that with? (I believe so reading through the manual but I'm not 100% sure). Right now I have everything else set up as 65534 @ 256 (sd 3.x and Mydos) Okay, did some more testing... I pulled out my IDEa and followed the same steps, here is what I get SD 3.x IDE+ 65534 @ 256bps when I enter MKSDFS.COM Sectors 32746 IDEa 65534 @ 256bps when I enter MKSDFS.COM Sectors 65534 SDX IDE+ 65534 @256bps when I enter Format sectors 32746 IDEa 65534 @256bps when I enter Format Sectors 65534 Just for everyone's reference, and Guitarman hinted at this to me last night (and me not being a hardware or software guru makes me denser at this stuff sometimes) here is Drac's reply to my PM on this... Yes, IDEa and IDE Plus use the physical sectors differently. IDEa packs two logical sectors (256-byters) into one physical 512-byter. IDE Plus always puts one logical sector into one physical (wasting space but gaining speed). Therefore what you declare 65534 under FDISK2, stays 65534 for IDEa, but gets divided by two for IDE Plus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Still no luck with MYDOS on my system... When I reactivate IDE after fdisk2 it is not seeing the partitions I have created Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 (edited) Oops, wrong topic Edited June 17, 2011 by AtariGeezer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simius Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 You don't see the partition created before? Sorry, that I ask, are you sure wrote partition table (CTRL-W)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roydea6 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 (edited) Still no luck with MYDOS on my system... When I reactivate IDE after fdisk2 it is not seeing the partitions I have created Try not deactivating IDE during fdisk2... I used this program after partitioning drive. FMTDIR.XEX Leave partition #2=D2: as an SIO drive. fdisk2 sector size 131070=65535 MyDOS sectors. Edited June 17, 2011 by rdea6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drac030 Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 I have swapped several PMs with orpheus, he sent me detailed information (including a copy of his disk's MBR), and it seems that I just have reproduced the problem he's having. It must be a weird bug in the firmware, will now try to trace it down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloopy Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 I have swapped several PMs with orpheus, he sent me detailed information (including a copy of his disk's MBR), and it seems that I just have reproduced the problem he's having. It must be a weird bug in the firmware, will now try to trace it down. i had the same problem a couple days ago, left it overnight, completely re-did my CF card (after zero'ing it out on my linux box), and it started working again... i went step by step with him, with the same config on mine as his, only diffs were i was using PAL 130XE/1GB CF, he was using NTSC 2GB CF, but otherwise the same (even same CF adaptor)... mine worked, his didnt :'/ sloopy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docentore Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 the list says that there is one left. Could you put my name against that + XL cable ribbon, postage to Dublin. Dzieki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drac030 Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 (edited) orpheuswaking is telling me that the problem he was having is gone in the BIOS revision I've sent him. So I decided to post the update in case anyone is having such a problem as well. Also, the updates won't be posted here anymore, I have setup a preliminary download page, here: http://drac030.krap....kmkjz-pliki.php There is also new version of the KMKDIAG, 1.36. I am also editing the manual, but it is not yet finished. When I will have it done, I'll upload it there. EDIT: in the configuration menu, the "USpeed SIO" option is back. It works well with MyDOS (here, that is). SpartaDOS 3.2 won't boot because of a conflict at VBL handling. The same problem occurs when SDX is selected to USE OSRAM and OS SIO. I am working on solving these issues. Have fun. Edited June 19, 2011 by drac030 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+orpheuswaking Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 I want to publically thank DRAC030 for his assistance with the MYDOS issue. everything is working great now I also like the newer versions of KMKdiag as they show a lot more info during testing. Keep up the great work! (looking forward to the updated manual) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dungeonmaster Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Put me down for one with the XE connector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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