[Coco] dskini.exe problems

[Bill Nobel]

  Coming in a little late in this thread,  I think I can tell you the 
problem.  Bill in his wonderful wisdom placed a new thing in windows 2000/XP 
that really will make things difficult for our world.  These versions of 
windows do not allow threads or programs to directly read/write to hardware 
ports or make direct calls to BIOS routines.  The only way around this issue 
at this time is to have a NON Windows 2000/XP system write your disks until  
either myself or a Windows Guru writes a driver that supports the direct 
calls to the BIOS, which means making the intel chip swap back to non 
protected mode.  Microsoft makes this very difficult under 2000/XP since it 
is so called secure (ya right) and does not allow user programs to swap back 
and forth as with win98.

-Bill


>From: Boisy Pitre <boisy at boisypitre.com>
>Reply-To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Subject: [Coco] dskini.exe problems
>Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:55:27 -0600
>
>All,
>
>I've setup a WinXP PC for work purposes.  In an effort to try to 
>consolidate the number of computers I have to maintain, I'm trying to move 
>my CoCo disk writing tasks from the Linux box (which has been replaced by a 
>Mac OS X system doing server tasks) to the PC.
>
>I'm using a Shuttle motherboard running the latest Windows XP.  In a 
>Command Prompt window, any DSKINI command just sits there trying to write 
>the first sector of the virtual disk to drive A: (a 1.44MB floppy).  The 
>BIOS is set up properly, and I can read FAT16 diskettes, so I'm wondering, 
>does DSKINI.EXE have compatibility issues with some of these floppy 
>controllers built into these condensed Super I/O chips?
>
>I would sure like to get this to work.  Any suggestions would be 
>appreciated.
>
>Boisy
>
>
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