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  • Wrong number of disks returned by DosPhysicalDisk

    From Mat Nieuwenhoven@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 11 22:36:44 2019
    Hi, I hope this group is still alive somewhat.

    I was looking at Airboot's source, and noticed that the call
    DosPhysicalDisk returns 10 partitionable disks. But there are only two
    on this system, and SSD and a HD. What is wrong here?
    The call in the source looks like that in http://www.edm2.com/0701/warpboot.html.

    Mat Nieuwenhoven

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  • From Marcel Mueller@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 12 00:30:14 2019
    Am 11.03.19 um 22:36 schrieb Mat Nieuwenhoven:
    Hi, I hope this group is still alive somewhat.

    I was looking at Airboot's source, and noticed that the call
    DosPhysicalDisk returns 10 partitionable disks. But there are only two
    on this system, and SSD and a HD. What is wrong here?

    Card reader wich supports many formats?


    Marcel

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  • From Lars Erdmann@21:1/5 to Marcel Mueller on Sun Mar 17 09:57:37 2019
    ... rather disks that are "reserved" by USBMSD.ADD.
    If you tell USBMSD.ADD to prepare 8 units via setting the
    /REMOVABLES:8 switch then USBMSD.ADD will report to the OS
    that it is managing 8 units even if no USB stick/disk is plugged in.
    That's because of a limitation in OS/2 that needs to know
    already at boot up time how many partitionable devices are there.
    You can easily test: change /REMOVABLES: to another value and see what DosPhysicalDisk will report back.

    Lars


    On 12.03.19 00.30, Marcel Mueller wrote:
    Am 11.03.19 um 22:36 schrieb Mat Nieuwenhoven:
    Hi, I hope this group is still alive somewhat.

    I was looking at Airboot's source, and noticed that the call
    DosPhysicalDisk returns 10 partitionable disks. But there are only two
    on this system, and SSD and a HD. What is wrong here?

    Card reader wich supports many formats?


    Marcel

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  • From Mat Nieuwenhoven@21:1/5 to Lars Erdmann on Sun Mar 17 22:40:19 2019
    Which I did, and indeed, it varies with the number of removables.
    I have set it to 2, because Linux reports 2 USB drives for the
    cardreader.

    Thank you, Marcel and Lars.

    On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 09:57:37 +0100, Lars Erdmann wrote:

    .... rather disks that are "reserved" by USBMSD.ADD.
    If you tell USBMSD.ADD to prepare 8 units via setting the
    /REMOVABLES:8 switch then USBMSD.ADD will report to the OS
    that it is managing 8 units even if no USB stick/disk is plugged in.
    That's because of a limitation in OS/2 that needs to know
    already at boot up time how many partitionable devices are there.
    You can easily test: change /REMOVABLES: to another value and see what :>DosPhysicalDisk will report back.

    Lars


    On 12.03.19 00.30, Marcel Mueller wrote:
    Am 11.03.19 um 22:36 schrieb Mat Nieuwenhoven:
    Hi, I hope this group is still alive somewhat.

    I was looking at Airboot's source, and noticed that the call
    DosPhysicalDisk returns 10 partitionable disks. But there are only two :>>> on this system, and SSD and a HD. What is wrong here?

    Card reader wich supports many formats?


    Marcel


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