help disaster

[lollynoob]

If you have ideas, make something of them. Posting about them here does nothing but make you sound like every other dumb newbie; actually write some code, then come back when it doesn't work (and be sure to tell exactly what goes wrong, not just "help it's broke what do i do????"). Do that, start using some punctuation and capital letters, and you're good to go.

Somehow though, I doubt you'll like that idea, so go ahead and close your account.

[cotton509]

m,y acount will stay to anoy you and i am starting the coding but how do i get it to reconize ide hdds is the problem ?

[Troy Martin]

I've never delved into hard drives with my OS, so I wouldn't be one to help you with that. Sorry.

[lollynoob]

Well I'm glad you're staying, if you had left you'd be a terribly weak person for listening to someone telling you to get out. As for your problem, have you tried googling or looking at the wiki?

[pcmattman]

how do i get it to reconize ide hdds is the problem

You find the ATA specification and you implement based on that. The spec will give you all the ports you need to write to, command information, and other related information. http://t13.org might help. As lollynoob mentioned, you might also want to try the Wiki.

[Troy Martin]

@lollynoob: Should we commence the tossing of the shameless plugs?

[cotton509]

ok renember this i am stupid whit h making operating systems.

[lollynoob]

So make yourself smarter; research and learn, slowly.

[cotton509]

no duh but one problem i cant fix with the os hard shutdown i cant figure out how to use shutdown comands .

[lollynoob]

Look them up, then; don't ask how do I use something here, ask how do I fix this specific problem. Do an hour's worth of research into the topic before posting about it.

[cotton509]

wait you guys kets start ealy please turbo explorer starting easly ok. c++. ok i will start on my kernal but i need compants and io por controls

[Troy Martin]

Once you're done with printing strings and stuff you should figure out how to recursively divide and modulus so you can display debugging information.

[lollynoob]

Learn that sort of thing on your own, it's nobody else's job here to teach you how to program in C++. Try to do that, and don't post for a week (a whole week). That's the sort of thing you've got to get used to, if you want to get into something as estoric as operating system development. There's not always going to be someone who can help you, so learn how to do research by yourself.

[Troy Martin]

All right, here's what should happen:

Go write some assembly in real mode. Learn how to divide. Come back when you've learned more.

[cotton509]

?no? lol and reak mode wont work for me i need protected so i can aces hardware directly.