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Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:42 pm
by 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.

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:45 pm
by 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 :cry: ?

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:48 pm
by Troy Martin
I've never delved into hard drives with my OS, so I wouldn't be one to help you with that. Sorry.

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:49 pm
by 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?

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:50 pm
by 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.

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:51 pm
by Troy Martin
@lollynoob: Should we commence the tossing of the shameless plugs?

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:56 pm
by cotton509
ok renember this i am stupid whit h making operating systems.

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:58 pm
by lollynoob
So make yourself smarter; research and learn, slowly.

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:01 pm
by cotton509
no duh but one problem i cant fix with the os hard shutdown i cant figure out how to use shutdown comands :mrgreen: .

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:04 pm
by 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.

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:05 pm
by 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

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:08 pm
by 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.

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:12 pm
by 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.

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:17 pm
by 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.

Re: help disaster

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:26 pm
by cotton509
?no? lol and reak mode wont work for me i need protected so i can aces hardware directly.