[Coco] dskini.exe problems

[John Collyer]

>From: Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>
>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

You are going to need a file system filter driver.
This is one of the most complex drivers you can do.

First go to the Microsoft IFS Kit page:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/ddk/ifskit/default.mspx

This will cost you roughly $1000.   You should also
seriously consider the OSR file system class, see

http://www.osr.com/seminars_dfsw2_5dl.shtml

this is currently around $3500.  Finally you will
need 18-24 months to do the work.

John Collyer

>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my CoCo disk writing tasks from the Linux box (which has been replaced by a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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