Hi Norbert, Japheth, Michael, nice to hear that we are getting back to a productive atmosphere on the list :-).
> Not right, because as a normal user you don't have to care about the > chipset you are using, because UMBPCI automatically checks and only > gives a message if an unsupported one is found. My point was that UMBPCI only supports known chipsets while EMM386 has the potential to support all 386+ hardware... But yes, UMBPCI knows many chipsets already. >> The only advantage of QHIMEM is that it uses even less DOS memory. > I think the problem is not the himem part. I believe that all problems > refer to the emm386 portion. Then the whole flaming would not have been necessary :-(. It is NOT HIMEM which is worse than QHIMEM, but it is EMM386 which is worse than UMBPCI! Actually EMM386 is a very complex piece of software, so as long as you have UMBPCI-compatible hardware, it is quite possible that it has advantages to use it instead of EMM386, to avoid the extra complexity overhead. Only problem is that UMBPCI does not provide EMS and that UMBPCI sometimes provides slow and/or un-DMA-able UMB memory. >> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/command/0.84pre/ >> testing/command.com > Thanks for the url. I will do testing with this release. Thanks :-). > QDMA also doesn't work with Symantec Ghost when used on a SATA-System > in IDE emulation mode by BIOS. This depends on whether "emulation mode" is supposed to work at all. If you can select another mode which does work, then there is no real need to make QDMA support "emulation mode". But of course I would like it if QDMA would not freeze the sound IRQ/DMA handling of Win3.1 standard mode any more :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
