Aitor Santamar?a wrote: >2006/8/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching >> enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the >> problem. > >Well, thanks indeed for the reports, perhaps you could tell us too if >you're using EMM386/HIMEM (or give your AUTOEXEC/CONFIG).
Except for the config files, that's in my original report. The config files are slightly modified versions of the ones created by the 8/19 fdbasecd.iso CD. I replaced the kernel, himem, and emm386 (that that 8/19 fdbasecd installed) with the updated ones (from 8/20). >For the regular user, this is an extra advice to use LBACACHE instead >of SMARTDRV :) That may be the solution. Does LBACACHE do write caching now? Michael Devore wrote: >At 05:15 AM 8/21/2006 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching >>enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the >>problem. > > >SMARTDRV is pretty particular on some machines. I just pulled the >following from the Microsoft site, it sound relevant to the issue. Let us >know the results. > >Double Buffering and Bus Masters >Certain disk controllers support a concept called bus mastering. This is Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into this possibility. FWIW this PC *does* have 3 VESA slots. I don't know if they could support a busmastering IDE controller or not. But that may be irrelevant - because the multi-IO/IDE board that is connected to the PC's hdd is in a ordinary 16-bit ISA slot (which AFAIK does *not* support that sort of thing). I was really hoping that this problem had been silently fixed by all of the other work that has been done recently. I was disappointed when the same problem cropped up again - because that means more work. So far I haven't done the work to isolate the problem to a repeatable failure. But I figured that I should send up a red flag so that the rest of you could be watching for the problem. -Eddie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
