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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> > GNU Parted can set the 'hidden' flag on DOS partitions. It can also
> > non-destructively resize partitions, unlike fdisk. It's basically
> > a better (and larger) fdisk.
> 
> I will try it.  I would like to hide Windows most of the time.  In 
> order to boot it, the partition it is on (first partition on the 
> second drive) needs to also be made 'active' - can parted do this?

Yes. Or DOS fdisk can do this.

> I still am stuck with Windows for such idiotic tasks as upgrading 
> USR modems to V90 (Phoebe Micro uses DOS) and making boot disks for 
> Seagate utilities. In just two years I have conquered scanning, 
> copying audio CDs, playing DVDs, and streaming audio, which was all 
> I normally used Windows for.  I could not have done it without all 
> the help.  (At least not in a linux that lets you think for 
> yourself).  DOS is still better for use with a TTL monito,r but the 
> maintainer of mdacon promised (a long time ago) to try to add a 
> scroll buffer and underlines would be nice too - does anyone want 
> to help me try to modify mdacon.c to do this?

Have you tried a newer kernel? For instance, does DamnSmallLinux do
mdacon?

> After already initializing the card in DOS ( io 220 mpu 330  irq 5 
> dma 1 dma16 5) I used pnpdump -rc to produce an isapnp.conf file  
> and it told me
> 'uart401:  bad devc' -

> what does a uart401 do?  Do I actually have one?

UARTs are also found in serial ports, where they split data into
individual bits. You should have one on an SB16.

> In DOS, I was able to use ctcm to choose from 6 different 
> configurations, two of which had no second DMA.  Do you think your 
> error message means that the channel you chose was unavailable, or 
> the card was not set up to have a second DMA channel?  It looks 
> from pnpdump like it should be dma16=3 but the rules seem to be 
> that DMA16 is 5, 6, or 7.

Perhaps it would work if I changed the second DMA to one of these.

> I have three other brands of 56K (USR Rockwell Phoebe-Micro).  Nice 
> to know at least four companies made hardware 56K modems.  Do you 
> know the init string to tell your modem not to try X2 before V90?
 
No. I don't care if it takes a little longer to connect.

David

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