From: dcasale AT my-deja DOT com Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP timer slowdown Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 22:42:53 GMT Organization: Deja.com Lines: 34 Message-ID: <95sj1a$aq4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.249.234.30 X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Feb 07 22:42:53 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x54.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 199.249.234.30 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDdcasale To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In article , djgpp AT delorie DOT com wrote: > > 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. Well, you gotta do what you gotta do. As I said before, this was a functional requirement for the program I've been paid to write/maintain. > Gosh, just the mapping of logical to physical drives can make you > crazy. Actually, I got that part down fine. :-) Damon Casale, damon AT WRONG DOT redshift DOT com Don't tell me it can't be done! My boss wants it ready to ship by Tuesday! Oh wait, today's Wednesday... o_O Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/