Hi everybody, if I try to access drive A: (floppy disk drive, configured as "treeinch" in /etc/dosemu.conf) from within dosemu, the floppy drive LED lights up and it seems to start reading, too, but immediately after the light goes off and dosemu hangs. No problems (apparently) if there is no disk in the drive: the usual "drive not ready" message does appear. But that's not so much useful indeed! 8-) As a workaround, I have currently disabled dosemu internal floppy support ($_floppy_a ="") and am accessing the floppy disks trough LREDIR + Linux automounter (autofs). Unfortunately, there's no way to boot dosemu from a floppy. FYI: I'm using the same (custom built) hdimage with Caldera Open/DR-DOS 7.2 that I was using (without any problem) with previous versions (RH 5.2, etc), but I have tried also with RH 6.0 supplied hdimage.freedos with the same results. Ciao, Paolo.
I had this same problem with RH6.0. I then got the new binaries for dosemu, freedos, and xdosemu for RH6.1 and the problem not longer existed for me.
0.99.13-6 (Rawhide powertools) should definitely fix this (new freedos version).